Recent content by Koloth

  1. K

    D&D 5E (2024) How to make ranged attack more hazardous for the user.

    Good defense against ranged attack is ranged attack. When goblin archers start targeting the party's archers, its all fair. Whatever the party has available for attacks, or defense, the opposition should have available as well.
  2. K

    I made a terrible life decision…

    Oddly, as part of my collection, I also have a Dallas game. The Game Store had several when I was in college and was giving them away. Don't think it has ever been played. No Gorn but I do have a Harcourt Fenton Mudd figure. Task for later today is to pickup 3 large bookcases purchased for...
  3. K

    D&D General How do you prefer your monster books?

    General. With indexes similar to the PF1 Bestiary: CR, terrain, role, etc. If you are going to publish more then one, maintain an online master index so one can quickly reference all the monsters and figure out which book has the one you want.
  4. K

    GURPS 4th Edition Revised Announced

    Why? The purpose of a point buy character system is to be able to build a custom character. The point cost of telepathy is offset part/fully by the point gain of deafness. Would you lessen the cost of deafness if the character had the sign language skill? The classic example of 'free'...
  5. K

    D&D General My character has too many magic items to attune to.

    Share the overage items with others or make tactical decisions on which items to attune before a mission. If you are about to enter the Cave of Icy Doom, the Staff of Frost might not be very useful as a lot of the critters in such a cave might be cold resistant while being able to travel a bit...
  6. K

    GURPS 4th Edition Revised Announced

    Seems like a perfectly allowable combo. Deafness relates to communication via sound waves. Telepathy is communications via mental waves. Two different things. Much like blindness could be offset by acute hearing. Also, deafness with telepathy seems to be a close description of the aliens...
  7. K

    D&D General 'Project Sigil' 3D Virtual Tabletop Finally Laid To Rest

    Is there any export option for said content or is it just gone forever? This does highlight the danger of creating stuff on someone else's servers.
  8. K

    WizKids to Release Kraken Figure for D&D

    I have a couple of this version.... Sadly, don't currently have storage space for the other variation. But it looks cool.
  9. K

    Fantasy Stories That Don’t Romanticise the Past

    The Thieves World anthology.
  10. K

    Golden Ages of Gaming

    For Star Fleet Battles, it was the 80's. Went to Dallas Origins in 84 and the tactics discussions were filled with hundreds of people. 10 years later at Dallas Origins 94, barely 10s of people attended. The rise of collectable card games in the 90's pushed a lot of other games to the side...
  11. K

    Your top 5 movie trilogies of all time, and why?

    Star Wars - 1st three in release order, not episode order. Star Trek 2, 3, 4. Good set plus the only 3 you can really call a trilogy. The rest are pretty much stand alone. Indiana Jones 1st three. Crystal Skull was ok and the last one was a movie too far. Dirty Harry - 1st three. Very...
  12. K

    RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Pendragon, Dark Forest, RAGNABORG, and more

    A shout out for Choose Cthulhu Solo Adventure Books from SJG: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sjgames/choose-cthulhu-game-books/description A variation on choose your own adventure. Note the shipping for physical books for non US folks. Can be a bit high. Ends Oct 31st so shorter then...
  13. K

    When Is a RPG "Complete" From a Publishing Perspective?

    Perhaps, but the title sure implies otherwise. Why I included both.
  14. K

    When Is a RPG "Complete" From a Publishing Perspective?

    From a publishing perspective, when the income becomes equal or less then the cost of production. If you are losing money on a game, probably time to call it. Moving might be making version X+1 of the existing game or producing a totally new game. Sometimes a game is good enough and doesn't...
  15. K

    What does a tank graveyard mean to you in your game?

    Variation on Tank Graveyard : Battle of Kursk - Wikipedia Makes the numbers from the Gulf War seem rather trivial.
Top