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well there is The Wintersmith oh and Susan and Lobsang Ludd and PerditaX Detritus and Ruby? Nanny Ogg and Cassanuda (okay maybe thats pushing it)

So am I right to be getting Hot Fuzz vibes? or is that merely coincidental

while Lankhmar is the quintessential Urban Fantasy setting seen across all fantasy cities, Ankh-Morpork is pretty clearly a parody of Dickensian London, which just happens to also be a squalid, crime ridden, fantastical urban sprawl. I very much agree with your premise here and it is very much...

I've done maybe 3 adventures that fit the ecological models 1. The local starts expanding, flooding adjacent farmland with what the peasants call sick water. Swamp dwelling stirges attack sheep, some livestock miscarry. Thus the local baron (a PC) decides to get in pumps and drain the swamp...

Reginald Shoe would be so happy to see this thread dragged un-alive and kicking from its musty tomb. but because I can I will repost what I wrote in 2007 with slight amendments 1 I recommend that you DO NOT start with The Colour of Magic or its direct sequel The Light Fantastic. These are the...

Chatgpt can do a check of maths, you just need to double check its following the rulebook

Yeah the 5e designers gave up on making Psionics mean anything and just made it a spellcaster with vaguely thematic spells. I dont know if any 3rd parties have created an actual working Psionics system

double trouble - next time I play a goblin I want a giant frog mount!

The Sidekick rules in Tasha's Cauldron can be applied to Mounts - levelling HP and Proficiency and for a Warrior Pet granting Second Wind, Defender stance and Extra Attack. They make for some tactically fun companion options - next time I play a goblin I want a giant frog mount!

I think that if your narrative is freezing then you are doing it wrong :) Even if PCs miss a strike, there ought to be enough happening that the battlefield is dynamic, creatures flinch or duck, objectives get closer or further away, people stumble, clocks tick and characters have time to move...

both, silk fibres are very strong under tension which meants that when an arrow head enters tightly woven silk it doesnt rip, instead it wraps around the arrow and steals momentum resulting in only shallow penetration and it also keeps the arrow from ripping flesh. Then the silk can be used to...

The two important things is 1. Mounts give better mobility and 2. Mounts are bonus HP. I've played a Gnome mounted on a giant hamster. The important thing to remember is mounts can disengage, so its all about Mobility, get close enough, shoot and then disengage and move out of enemy range. That...

well that was like a hole in the head

Of course the great myth of Zaibatsu is that they were these powerful dynasties who could act with impunity. The reality of post-war Japan is that the economy was centrally planned by the new Japanese Government - in particular MITI who was the agency who determined if a Zaibatsu had access to...

The concept of being "too big to fail" They control supply of goods that are essential to the economy to the extent that disruptions to the supply has major social and political fallout. Further they are invested in a network that influences communications/information, giving them leverage in...

The Waste Tide by Chen Qiufan - set on Silicon Island off the coast of China where oppressed workers work in massive E-waste recycling plants, owned by the islands native clans processing mostly American junk. Environmentalism, Labour rights and Colonialism in Chinese Cyberpunk.

The United Fruit Company is up there too - its the reason Banana Republics exist

One could certainly cast the EIC as a Megacorp, especially as its Royal Charter gave it powers to build forts, collect taxes and make its own treaties in pursuit of profit. It took 3 - 6 months for communication to move between London and India so the Nabobs on the ground were essentially...

I think the numbers are just shorthand for descriptors and they really should mean something. For instance a Dextrous character might move with fluidity, skipping through a crowd like a bird, whereas a low dex character, might stumble through, being pushed and maneuvered around as the crowd...

I agree Wisdom is challenging. One combination I like is the high Wis low Int character - one who is perceptive and insightful but not good at academics or deduction. I'd phrase things as them noticing little details and asking questions "theres a thing over there, so what would happen if we...