More questions for the Dark*Matter game I am working on. :) Let's say we have some PCs trying to hack their way into a computer system has been compromised by...
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:06 PM, Jonathan Wells ... Well, not to accidentally preview something that's not quite out yet, but... Taken out means that your...
On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Jonathan Wells ... It's still there. After taking some (or all, or none) of those consequences, the GM still wants the...
Does the 2/4/6 system make concessions useless? The player already has the choice to be taken out rather than take a consequence, so the negotiated concession...
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:17 PM, Brad Murray ... Each implementation of Fate should customize the skill list to create areas of focus that the implementers...
... Most of them seemed redundant with existing skills or were subsumed in play in the social combat system (especially Investigation). Empathy and Charm ...
I just noticed the other night that Diaspora lacks skill equivalents of SotC's Empathy and Investigation. What was the design reasoning behind this? Just...
... These days, e-commerce sites that _don't_ make you register seem to be a rarity — I'm pretty sure IPR and/or DriveThruRPG require registering, as do...
... No fear, David; that's a risk of these one-day coupons coupled with the way Lulu works. It's fine most of the time but for some small number of people ...
Sarah ... 2nd ed. HeroQuest uses them as flaws in addition to providing magic, which sounds more like a compellable aspect to me. However, I wouldn't recommend...
... *$‡@! Lulu is one of the most user-hostile sites I've seen. I have to register just to buy something (or use a coupon code)? I need a unique ID? And then...
... Of course it depends on just how much Glorantha you want to come across. Glorantha does have wizardry (also called sorcery) as well - people learning magic...
On Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:21:39 -0800 ... [snipped] I've started an implementation to replace Tunnels and Trolls, but before I go any further, does anyone know if...
Hi guys, I've been wondering about playing some Glorantha with FATE also (specifically Legends of Anglerre, the fantasy version of Starblazer Adventures we're...
On Nov 10, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Brad Murray <bjmurray.halfjack@...> ... "Level 3 or three levels above the skill being replaced" seems a good compromise. ...
... fades with age and scotch) that we had two mechanisms competing: a) Swap a skill gives you skill A at skill B rank with no limit, but skill A has to be in...
This just crossed my desk: a coupon code for Lulu good for 11.11% off good tomorrow only. I'm wishing I'd held on to today's vendor order for 12 hours, ...
... Ha indeed! You have revealed our dark secret -- Diaspora was several years in development and changed substantially over that time. The sample characters...
Brad, I just noticed that on p.93, the sample character Quantii has a stunt ("Can you do the paperwork for me?") that lets her use Charm for Bureaucracy at...
Here's another D*M conversion. I definitely need help on this one, though. - The Crawfordsville Monster - Skills - 4: Stealth, 3: Natural Weapons, 2: Stamina,...
... This was part of the design intentions. With 36 skills (more, since profession multiplies infinitely) you end up untrained in over half of everything (3/4...
... True enough. One project I'm working on right now has 7 skills and a pyramid of 6, allowing you to define the character by her primary talent and her ...
A little tangential, but SotC had more Skills than most of the Fate/Fudge hacks I was familiar with and Diaspora has even more! Diaspora has a LOT of skills! ...
... of the fight ... hunt" when ... the ... the animal can take Consequences or not. If they do, the GM is still the on who >decides whether or not to take a...
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