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Well, they are going to look for hints of activity, what kind of opposition to expect, what kind of patrol or watches exist. They don't know if the raiding party into their base was acting on its own, the exact composition might be unclear and they don't know if they have any support previously...

I don't remember this, sounds like a cool story idea. Is your assumption we're basically 50 years after the "boomer" phase so we get a generational setup more like real-world demographics, or do you want to spend more time on a more classic demographic pyramid,with more young than old. In the...

The patrol still needs to figure out what they are seeing, they can't just go back: "We saw something we couldn't identify and didn't bother to check more, let's assemble our strike force and head out". So as they investigate what they found, and maybe try their Arcana checks or whatever, the...

No, there is a difference. Because now it's just a patrol finding them and investigating what they found: They probably want to report back soon, but they can't decide to launch an attack on people in their sleeping bag. So the players have a bit of time to prepare and can take out the patrol...

I am not sure why the assumption is that the tiny hut is always placed in the middle of the dungeon for every denizen of that dungeon to be found. I'd say the party might backtrack their route to through the dungeon and pick a spot a little less easy to find, so that they aren't worried about...

That's definitively a concern of mine, because I actually experienced that already in other games. It can improve with experience with the game, but you don't start with experience and maybe your GM doesn't either. I think my first experience with this was Shadowun 3 (which has probably a...

There have been some attempts at it in the d20 Sphere of games. The one I remember was the wounds/vitality point system that I think originated in the d20 Star Wars games (but not Saga Edition). You had wounds equal to your hit points and vitality points like hit points, critical hits would go...

But wouldn't it be a better design if you managed to have the best strategies also being the most fun to play? And just like there is no guarantee that players find the best strategies, nor that they find the most fun strategy. Maybe they stumble upon something that works, and realize it's...

Kinda, but I think it's really a warning aimed at game designers. Don't design your game so that the best strategies to play are unfun. You can't expect players to deliberately pick weak strategies.

I got the Hexxen ruleset for the Foundry. A friend of mine wants another go since the group that he played Hexxen with went defunct, and my other projects area not advancing as fast, and it seems an easy and fun system to run.

Well, going by the movies I believe watched the most Matrix Star Trek VIII: First Contact Mad Max: Fury Road Dark City Terminator Are these really the best, even just for me? Dunno, but forcing me to decide favorites or whatever never works anyway.

This is kinda specific for the topic, but this reminds of one thing. The CLW Wand was important because it dealt with out-of-combat healing. In combat, heals always felt kinda weak. A Cleric (or a Fighter buffed by the Cleric) and NPCs could dish out a lot of damage per round, it was often...

It worries me that you have to explicitely mention this, that would have been my default assumption! Gonna lie: You're putting me in a setting of despair!

Kinda the real question is: Can they do more than the the spells and abilities can do that the players get back by resting? The best option might really be: Leave the area. But giving up your base of operations isn't something trivially done, usually, either. It's home, it's a place you thought...

I'd say it's pessimistic to say they all tear it all down. It's a setback, but there is still a "net advancement", so to speak. It still sucks. For that reasons ,I didn't really feel like D&D 4E Points-Of-Light approach wasn't really a "despair" setting to me. I mean, there was presumably...

A random thought that occured to me -maybe a TNG GURPS game would need to use a new kind of rule that allows the players to lend some of their character build points to another player (or to build an NPC under control of all the players?). You could adopt that for DS9 (you gotta pay for Odo's...

Wow, that sounds more devestating than the time when our GM had us fight a Hill Giant but due to a layout problem of the 3E monster manual was using Stone Giant stats or something. Two attacks and two Cleaves later, the party was dead...

I only remember this spell from 3E, but Delayed Blast Fireball or what it was called was a neat example. It didn't just deal more damage (it was acutally still 1d6 per level, but not capped at 10d6, IIRC), it had an additional effect, that you could delay its explosion. It might not be a very...

No, they are just demons and devils trying to tempt you and lead you away from what is good and holy. Beware their temptations, their false promises of deeper roleplaying experiences, or more tactical combat (or less), or faster, elegant gameplay, evocative settings or whatever. The worst of...

RAW doesn't really define whether genetics exist, or virus or bacteria, and that might really depend on yours setting. I think if it requires 20th or 21st century knowledge to distinguish it further, we should just treat it as a "disease". I think one could make a case for something like...