... The way to get around that is to also alow the players to spend points to increase a specific position in the matrix the same way (with the same cost) he...
... If it's the same cost, why would anyone ever increase a square when he could increase a whole row or column for the same cost? Maybe I don't understand. By...
... Here's one way: At each increase, characters gets a number of increase points in a skill group equal to the training focus. If you assign a point to a...
For those that are familiar with my work, you may know me under my other yahoo ID - maniac_sack. For those that do not know me or my work, I should say that I...
along similar lines, has anyone found any good sources of 'what a human can do?" i've got the presidential fitness targets, but they don't have much on...
On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:04:48PM -0000, tare_rpg distributed foul capitalist propaganda: [...] ... Yep. I've read books on medicine and forensics medicine...
... I've been there more than once. I tend to be methodical about mine and spend a lot of time cross-referencing and comparing sources. A piece of advice on...
... Plenty of times. I've got a bookshelf that's about half full of non- fiction that was bought for gaming research purposes -- history, books about magic,...
I don't often find myself in a lot of research for realism's sake. I feel that if we are playing a game, getting reality 100% correct is futile anyways. What...
I became inspired after trying to make a character for a Feng Shui campaign. The rigidity of the character creation system, coupled with the fact that it...
This looks like an opportunity to propose a book exchange. Any topics you'd like research materials on? A specific hard-to-find book? Post it and see what ...
how many point go into characters? it doesn't look like you are going to have much difference between types until you hit several hundred points. john tobako ...
... I hadn't reached the point of giving any thought to that, last night, apart from it obviously being *lots* of points. But I did contemplate it a few hours...
Excellent suggestions! You've given me some good stuff to chew on. Thank you. Do you know if anyone has posted a more detailed write up on The Serenity RPG...
... See if you can track down any of Fred Saberhagen's books Dracula books. "The Dracula Tape" will be particularly interesting after having read Bram Stoker's...
... No need to... I already have them -- read them years ago, but will be re-reading them. :-D In the past, I've read the first six books or so. _The...
JAPartridge wrote: [...] ... Have you checked out the v0.1 draft of my Action Movie RPG (character creation) rules? That's one way of having "both" worlds even...
... I've downloaded it. I haven't checked it out yet, but if it doesn't get lost on my hard drive, I hope to look at it soon. ~Talus [Non-text portions of...
... Interesting that you bring up magic, because that was going to be my next target after I nail down the basic skills. I'm hoping to avoid discreet spells...
... It's not just a problem that players become confused if the rules are vaguely formulated. It also shifts the power balance in the wrong direction, i.e....
From: "JAPartridge" <japartridge@...> ... Hmm, a fair description of the full skill system would be 'insanely complex' - it worked because I'd written a ...
I have had an idea for a game mechanic kicking around in my head. Parts of it were lifted from another idea here on the list (I think). I wish I could give...
... That's an interesting approach to taking aspects of a different system and attaching them to one you already like. I'm also very fond of nWoD, but have...
... If you really want to simplify things, you could derive Attributes (for the purpose of Saving Throws) from the player's skills. A character who has...
anyone know where i can get graphs of die results for things like mid d20 (and high/low d20) or how i would program such a thing? thanks john tobako...
... My Dice-roll program "Roll" (http://www.diku.dk/~torbenm/Dice.zip) can calculate the probability distributions of dice-rolls like the above, but it doesn't...
... [...] I think it might be better to use a character that is usually narrow in proportional fonts. If that is done, e.g. by using a capital "I" (especially...
... Tim Powers' "The Stress of Her Regard" has a very interesting take on vampires - as deadly muses for Lord Byron, Shelley and Keats. Chelsey Quinn Yarbro's...
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