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Also, I don't really buy the argument that advantage is that powerful as I haven't seen it massively turn the tide in any battle or campaign I've been in or run. I remember when 5e came out and people were complaining that medium difficulty is a dc 15. I always wondered if the math had assumed...

I enjoy advantage/disad (or boons and banes in sotdl), as it does something l proficiency in 5e doesn't. It makes rolls more reliable. That is, it makes higher rolls more reliable and better results more consistent. In addition to this, if you allow them to stack, the benefit becomes...

I don't see any reason it couldn't. You just need to work out max stamina and recovery for different characters and stamina costs for various activities. Balancing it would be the hard part.

I believe the conan system has that you start with your maximum number of gems, lets say 6, and you regenerate a set amount each turn up to your maximum (lets say 2). You can spend a gem to perform an action and you can spend extra gems to enhance attacks. For defense you can choose to guard...

I've thought quite a bit about this as most the systems I'm familiar with don't have anything quite like it. I haven't played it, but I'm quite intrigued by the Conan board game system - you start with a number of gems which is basically a stamina score and regenerate a set number of gems each...

I've got The Sprawl on my bucket list to run. One thing in particular I like is that you create the megacorps as you go along with your character. Have top end gear or cyberware? Chances are you owe a corpo big time, or at the least they are looking for whoever "liberated" their stuff. Every...

You do you. I like the 5e system because i could have a samurai who knows and is known to a tonne of club owners superficially and another who is really close to a high level corpo and the two would have a different feel to me, different capabilities and different motivations. I find myself...

This is something I thought Shadowrun 5e did well although it was unfortunately most often lost behind all the sub-systems going on. You could spend Karma/XP on contacts based on their influence in society and their loyalty to you. It was a great and simple way to quantify useful connections...

So do i, and if they keep a modest goal in mind and try to produce a movie with good characters and dialogue i'll be thrilled. My only point was that there is an incentive for production companies to "dumb down" plots and characters to appeal to more countries. Sometimes films with big budgets...

One thing to remember is that most blockbusters make the majority of their money in non english speaking countries, particularly china. Dialogue and culture is hard to sell to different groups, so you tend to get a lot of the "robots go boom" movies as it's universal and easily understood. If...

The Book of Tales expansion for the witcher ttrpg is really good, even just for the lore. I wrote what i liked about it in a previous thread, but some key elements that drive the theme home to me are: Monsters often have immunities and vulnerabilities. Monsters are often drawn to an area by a...

I ran a 3 year campaign with Shadow of the Demon Lord and will run another soon. It's not perfect, but mechanically it does most of what I'd want 5e to do in a more streamlined and modular fashion. Plus there's a tonne of supplemental material that'll keep you busy for years if you want it. I'm...

Cuberpunk is one of the few RPGs that i think could be run successfully if everyone was the same class. I could see a party of all rockerboys trying to make a name for themselves. My dream is to play in a cyberpunk heist where everyone is a netrunner.

Sounds really interesting. Keep me updated please!

The wireless thing always bugged me. I'm not a tech guy but the first thing i know is if you want to secure something, make it hardline only and protect the access ports.

The red book calls it out as a kind of dissociative disorder from reality. Using cyber legs with enhanced functionality makes you feel less human, but a replacement limb restoring functionality wouldn't. It's not really sufficient though. I think name should have been changed to something else...

You can get the freemium model arm replacement at a cost of $0. That's right, free! It comes with all the functions you need like pick up cups, shake hands, and wipe your ass. And for a small extra fee you can disable arm-adds and get exciting new features like punch! *location tracking...

One thing I always keep in mind is that PCs are most likely extraordinary people that buck the trends of the time. For example there were female samurai in some clans (called Onna-Bugeisha, one was even an empress), there were groups of people that hated slavery even while it was going on, etc...

Would be cool to have several groups with their own GMs going through parts of the dungeon as competing adventurers.

Wouldn't the easiest ruling be that dwarves don't count the weight of the armor they wear towards encumbrance?