Recent content by thexar

It is because of my history with this game that I felt no guilt printing a raise chart for Savage Rifts with targets between 4 and 50, up to 7 raises. It may be simple math, but the chart makes things go quicker. The failure of this system, THAC0, and Numenera for me is they expect the DM to...

Shadowrun is that game we ALL want to love, but … it's hard.

Does it still start with a 1st level party coming out of the woods to see a large city under siege getting blasted by a dragon, and they're supposed to think "hey guys/gals, we should help those people"? How about when you jump through a portal and level to 7. If you make your perception check...

why pie charts - whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

This isn't new at all. It isn't just teenagers, and certainly not all teenagers. It has frequently been the DM's wife, but not all, or always. The worst AAM players to take a place at my table were neither teenage, married, or female. All I can say is, give everyone their fair time slice...

I see this very much as Gate, Jobs, and Torvalds iterating on ideas.

https://thenoteboard.com/ I carry it with me always.

The back door to Aech's van has a big call out to ToH.

Race in D&D has always had a positive influence on me, because it demonstrated that WE are all human.

No crystal spheres. The Flow (a plane) can be reached by portal (natural or opened by device) at twice the distance from the primary to the furthest planet. Take-off and landing from a planet needs to be extremely difficult - and easily fatal, to prevent using ships for terrestrial combat...

KS is an investment. There are risks. It is not a pre-order. It sucks to fail, but these are just toys. The threats and outrage needs to dial it down a bit.

I spent all day making decisions. Now - just want to beat up monsters until candy comes out. Someone else can drive. This isn't an "all the time" mode for me. But sometimes "mindless" is what I need.

I'm reading through the book, and I don't understand when and where the mists come. Is it a daily occurrence? Is the whole continent covered at once, a prefecture at a time, or just small clouds? How is the daily life of a peasant in a small mountain village affected? Or a middle-class...

yeah but: Budget:$45,000,000 (estimated) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190374

While Battletech is certainly cool, Mechwarrior and Mech Assault games were huge money losers.