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NOTE ADDED AUG 2, 2015: If my sig took you here, know that this thread is pretty old. Most of what's in it still applies, but most of the action is at http://philosoraptorgames.com/ now. If you've got comments on anything related to Fantasy Infinity, I'd love to see them over there! I'd put...

I'm sure I'm not doing myself any favours by neglecting this thread, but this week has been busy primarily with becoming more educated about the business side of what I plan to do. Today in particular, there was little time for the creative side. No later than Saturday, however, I plan to start...

I think one reason for the lack of responses might just be that it's a genuinely difficult question. At the moment I don't have a bunch of candidate names I'm choosing between or anything like that... I'm just plain stuck on that point. As far as describing the game better, the best way to do...

Hey, sorry I didn't get back to this thread earlier! My gaming priorities have shifted pretty hard to the new system I'm writing, but that's not to deny that I'm still interested in BFRPG or the OSR in general. PM me if you're interested in getting together. I often go to the Second Cup on...

Hello, ENWorld! I am working on a new RPG, a heroic fantasy game inspired chiefly by the various Final Fantasy games, particularly 1, 4, 5 and 10. It is not a d20 game or otherwise based mechanically on any version of D&D - the core mechanic is a d6-based die pool - and it should, if I'm doing...

EDIT: (Never mind, my mistake)

I'm fairly sure Rich has said nothing of the sort.

Cue someone complaining that nothing happened in 3...2...1...

First of all, I don't think he's had that much more of this than any of several other characters, most obviously Roy and Elan. And secondly, did you not notice the part where it directly affects the main plot? At the end of the day, Rich will get criticisms no matter what he does, some more...

Any chance of getting to READ this as a text article, instead of watching it as a video? I'd usually rather do the former than the latter, especially when the video is, to be a bit blunt, this amateurish.

Well, for one thing, because then you're moving the pivot-point that actually matters, i.e. the point where you're out of the fight, to some semi-arbitrary non-zero number that isn't even consistent from character to character. For the math-averse, if they're anything like the less...

Wow... I would never have guessed that so many people had issues with negative hit points. I've literally never heard it suggested that they were a problem before, yet it seems to be the near-unanimous opinion in this thread that they're horrible and getting rid of them is a positive or even...

You're still making assumptions about the plot role (or lack thereof) of these last few strips that aren't warranted. This is especially true given that after nearly 900 strips, Rich has yet to let us down in the ways people keep predicting.

Aaaaand now that the next strip is out, all the comments along these lines are looking right silly.

As it happens, I'm a Winnipeger and interested in running a Basic Fantasy game, in fact I've been prepping one for some time. However, I don't know when this would happen as I feel like I barely have time to do justice to the games I already run, even with both currently on an every-other-week...

No. In order to be lies, they would have to be intentional, or at the very least blatantly negligent. But in order to be falsehoods, all they have to be is false.

I would assume he means building a character starting from essentially a blank piece of paper (i.e. out of the clear blue sky), without the guidance random elements and/or well-defined classes or templates can provide. However, this is just an educated guess and I too would appreciate some...

Doing some Appendix N reading - currently I'm in the middle of both Stormbringer by Michael Moorcock and The King of Elfland's Daughter by Lord Dunsany. This, after several years of reading very little fiction, unless you count economics blogs.