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February 1983. As we step into a new year of gaming Ian Livingstone wonders what might come next. With Treasure Trap starting (or at... -
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Picture courtesy of Pixabay. Lately, my Saturday afternoons at the local library have become the third pillar of a massive... -
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Distracted DM reacted to MarkB's post in the thread Lances were designed to shatter and be disposable? with
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One thing to bear in mind with a lance is that the optimal successful outcome of using one in combat is to leave an entire armoured... -
FFrozenNorth reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
Not if the DM/GM doesn't allow them to bypass the checks. In general I don't really buy arguments that depend on "...and then imagine...
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FFrozenNorth reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
To give GMs and players an idea of the range of actions to which....wait for it...you would apply a die roll modifier.
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Fenris-77 reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with
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That's where these discussions always go, because it's pretty hard to defend one's thinking as logically correct when the negative... -
Micah Sweet reacted to aco175's post in the thread Lances were designed to shatter and be disposable? with Haha.
My cousin works in the lance building union for the Kingdom. Tournaments are not every day and he got 10 kids to feed. -
FFrozenNorth reacted to Bill Zebub's post in the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)? with Like.
All of the stats (maybe Strength least so) are way too broadly defined for there to be any rules/expectations about how certain numbers...
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Fenris-77 replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.Sure, but Shadowdark, as an example, still works very well without that granularity (and no skill mechanic beyond the backgrounds). It...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Lances were designed to shatter and be disposable? with Like.
Lances are sports’ equipment. They are designed to break to make it less likely someone will be killed.
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Micah Sweet reacted to Quartz's post in the thread Lances were designed to shatter and be disposable? with Like.
I've just seen this YouTube short which points out that medieval cavalry lances were supposed to shatter and be disposable whereas...
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Each person has their own standard for perfection when it comes to film. My stance is that there is no perfect film. For me film isnt an... -
FFrozenNorth replied to the thread What is "railroading" to you (as a player)?.You’re free to introduce examples from other RPGs, but I don’t think it’s fair to ignore examples from the currently most played RPG.
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Burnside replied to the thread D&D General Besides Nimble, are there other stripped down versions of 5e....I've been following Moldvay on Mike Mearls' Patreon and it's very interesting. There's a lot to like about it. Of course there are some... -
Ryujin reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Lances were designed to shatter and be disposable? with Like.
Jousting lances are, but lances used in war are not. They're not designed to shatter on impact, though. And actually, historically in...
