Recent content by Retros_x

Ok thanks, that is good for my expectation management for the upcoming books. I especially like Nynaeve! I am really glad we get now POV chapters in this book (only a few though) and I am always looking forward to them. I love her banter and her passionate hate towards the Aes Sedai - while...

For me its more a bug honestly. I read tons of manga/anime and a) I dont need these tropes in novels b) these kind of tropes are only appereant in the "mid" ware of anime/manga. All these Isekai with generic artwork are full of these tropes. I only accept them if they are in some form...

I still havent heard it! I dont listen to radio and most of my presents were ordered online. I was on one Christmas market, but it was a more traditional one with classic christmas and church music (I'm in Germany). But friday is my last work day and I will have much more time to go on christmas...

Thats true but its not just the outcome, the calculation itself happens with values that can't be measured. With cars we at least could measure their impact, we just weren't aware of all the impact factors. Bentham was no mathematician and needed help by others. I don't think any sane...

I started Wheel of Time #2 and I am already 60% done with it, its a bit shorter than the first one. Unfortunately its a bit of a letdown. Its still an enjoyable read but the magic of the first book is a little bit gone and SHONEN-ANIME has entered the thread! No seriously, so many scenes read...

Interestingly enough I enjoy videogames much more that don't do scaled leveling too. I was really annoyed by the scaling in Bethesda games for example.

My father got a stent in his 50s - he is 84 now and in really good shape and health. Stents are awesome. Perfect example of the wonders of modern medicine.

Thats my approach. Not just in OSR-games, but also in 5e. Balance is an illusion anyway in TTRPG. Chess is a nearly balanced game where all involved have exactly the same means (but one starts first which results in the one factor disrupting the perfect balance). A "balanced" TTRPG would go in...

Wasn't that the opposite of math and just three oracles sitting in bathtubs of magic milk? Felt like a modern version of the oracle of delphi sniffing weed and not ratio. I also don't understand the question. A society based on math in general or statistical probability like in the title? Whats...

I love when modern media and communication don't just get circumvented (battery empty, no service etc.) in horror stories but get actually well integrated. Modern technology has so much potential to induce fear and horror, I love when the genre does that. I just recently read "The Ring" and its...

I would love an action adventure by Naughty Dog. Eberron screams for pulpy adventure action in great setpieces, it would be great!

Ah I understand your post better now, thanks for the clarification. Yeah, I agree! And my players do too, the examples I wrote above where all tongue-in-cheek. I dont waste a lot of energy if one of my players recognize a contradiction in the lore or something like that.

I like to start in media res and with some relatively isolated single adventure at the start so the characters and players can explore their relationships and characters without to worry about "the big picture".

That is plainly not true in the real world. Even with a question as "who reigned when" that seems to be "objective and factual" the answer in the history books is heavily dependent on if the lore keepers recognize a ruler as a rightful rulership. I think realism is not a good point here. I...

I mean obviously, I don't just load as the DM some lore drops. The lore should always come from a gameable context, but especially if it came from a successful investigation/research/history check whatever, it feels cheap to excuse your DM mishap by telling the players their successful action...