I love that dragon article, and all the references it linked to at the bottom, too!
@AncientSwordRage, Axoren seemed to be talking as if there was an egg joke that was going round the Internet, and there is, I've seen it in one other group. What is it?
@MikeQ Pretty much. In the Cuyahoga world, dragons are absolutely supreme individuals--but that is also their weakness: they consider the idea of a "tribe" to be inherently weak because it means subjugating yourself to others. Humanoids willingly band together into armies and nations that can overpower a single dragon.
> "For millennia before our contact with elvish, and then human, âcivilizationâ it mattered not to us. The idea of âpoliticalâ power, âeconomicâ powerâmanipulating events through proxies, and symbolsâwere concepts long and hard in coming to us.â Theophane waved back to the pillar, where her computer was showing a stock ticker. âWealth is the easiestâand the most easily understandableâway to acquire that kind of power.â I scribbled a few notes as I asked her, âYouâre saying that you only hoard wealth to be able to influence humans?â
Hrm. The Rivers of London TRPG will use BRP, and it feels like the first time I've seen BRP applied to a franchise and I've thought "yeah, that sounds like a good fit for the material."
Right now, Iâm planning a situation where faction âaâ is going to fight faction âbâ and the players pick a side, and the side which the players choose is fairly likely to win. How do I make it so that faction a and faction b are around the same strength?
Example: in the current game I am thinking...
@A.B. Well, for our group, it all started when we were considering different materials that things could be made out of, and then we realized that linguistically, things could be made out of "egg" instead of "eggs" and the material was "egg"
Then, at some other point, we learned that one of our mods was eating enough eggs per day to give any normal person high cholesterol.
Eventually, there were so many different "egg" inside jokes within our server.
Later, we learned that Northern Lion, a famous video game streamer, also had an entire egg-based lore within his community. And we started to see "egg" in places all over the net. But for us, for the most part, it's multiple inside jokes under a single egg-brella.
Wickedness by Nightling Bug. A coven of three struggle to hold the worlds (and one another) together in this narrative RPG. (Physical orders here.)
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Someone in our system design circle has been developing a combat system for a while and just recently, one of his discoveries was that a design choice of his made an interesting change to melee combat.
When facing two enemies, there is a benefit to repositioning around one of them to attack them from another square. In D&D systems, moving away would provoke an attack of opportunity, making this always a worse option.
I won't talk too much about it, but it's an emergent property of his design, but it's a really promising indicator that he might have struck gold.
By the end of summer, he might be publishing it.
@BESW Could you point to any resources for how to publish RPGs and licensing it? I feel like you're one of the ones with their ears to the ground on these things.
@Axoren Seconding Red's question; this is a very big topic. Are we talking about variant rules on an existing license or an entirely new game? Looking to make money from it or just retain control over it?
@Axoren You might find some of the TTRPG Resource Jam entries helpful, though the chance that any of them are going to specifically answer your needs is slim.
But there's stuff about crowdfunding, about putting a game on DTRPG, making logos, etc.
I was wondering, for spell-like abilities, do you need to make concentration checks to cast defensively, if damaged while casting, etc? Or is none of that necessary, since they technically aren't spells?
I'm getting the impression that the D&D 5E designers spent a lot of time picking up all of the RP beartraps from around the Paladin but on their way to the dumpster they tripped and spilled them around the Warlock instead.
@Glazius Oh? What things do you have in mind? (When deciding to try out the system, after a short experiment I gravitated towards the warlock, so I'm curious.)
@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica I'm guessing the fact that the class presumes the existence of a patron who can demand the warlock do certain things or behave in certain ways is the issue
Yeah, pretty much. I just see a lot of people asking the same "my patron demands" questions that paladin players used to ask as "my alignment demands".
(and I don't see a lot of paladin players asking "my oath demands")
Warlock splash is also a popular powergaming move, so that also motivates a lot of GMs to do the thing that seldom turns out well where they impose RP costs on character power.
@NautArch Can this paladin be saved This question looks a lot like a Party Optimization problem, but as querent does not describe what those two wizards do, besides nearly die a lot, I am having reservations about an answer
A boggle uses its dimensional rift capability to partially appear next to a PC and attack it. When the boggle retracts his arm and upper body back through the rift, would it allow an opportunity attack?
I found one single web page stating that it wouldn't but it doesn't give any rules reference o...
Should the GM set a difficulty (a penalty) for player moves, in the form of Move(2d10) + Attribute - Penalty?
I'm asking because, despite for Endure Injury move, this is not clear in the book, but it seems reasonable to set a penalty when the situation is clearly disadvantageous for the player ch...
I was wondering, for spell-like abilities, do you need to make concentration checks to cast defensively, if damaged while casting, etc? Or is none of that necessary, since they technically aren't spells?
