Recent content by Reynard

The only thing i am not looking forward to is guying it all again on fantasy Grounds...

It could also simply be economic. As someone mentioned upthread, a (war) wizard is a huge investment of years of education, so the Guild is going to want to get compensated for that investment when they hire out battle mages to lords and such. but when the gunsmiths come in, they can do much the...

Only those filthy heathens toy with forces beyond their understanding and control. We, the righteous, forge weapons that harness the power of ingenuity to cleanse the world!

I think all world building should serve play, so if part of the world building is "guns vs wizards" what that looks like should be less focused on whether it is "logical" and more focused on what makes a better, more gameable setting. The Mages Guild versus the Gunsmith Consortium is an...

Right. The ability to "reskin" something doesn't make it universal or generic. it still only does what it does, but now with lasers instead of crossbows.

Why not indeed. Sounds like a good interpretation of "it's a race." "Setting" doesn't usually mean "world" in most campaigns in my experience. Ostensibly, we are positing the scenario where such conditions do exist, preferably in a way that drives play.

I am sure i must have said this before, but... For a hobby that prides itself on fantastical thinking, there are a LOT of folks who don't have a creative bone in their body.

2 way ignore is a real problem.

Right. If magic exists, but is somehow curated, other people are going to work really hard to find an equalizer. It becomes a race.

I think it is less a "power level" thing, and a "I'm the protagonist so I get to always win" thing.

Yes. it is under Preferences, not Ignore. I don't think so.

The designer Kelsey Dionne describes it as B/X with 5E inspired modern mechanics. Shadowdark is infinitely hackable, not least because it is lean and does not overly concern itself with "balance." You squishy.

I don't like livestreams. There are exceptions, of course, but even with podcasters or YTers that i really enjoy, I just can't deal with livestreams. i guess I like editing, or at least writing ahead of time. Perform, moneys!

Ah. Gotcha. I was confusing the AI tag with the forum marker. My bad.

Yeah, that's the one that I saw, but maybe it is the only active one? I know the name of the subforum is not the same as the tag, so maybe that has something to do with it?