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| bio | website | d7.pipemaze.com |
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| location | Vancouver, Canada | |
| age | 32 | |
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Roleplayer, lapsed blogger, and full-time dad.
Started playing with AD&D 1st edition and started GMing with AD&D 2nd edition. Ran D&D 3rd edition, D&D 4th edition briefly, then became a fan of indie games and the OSR. Particularly fond of GMless and short-form games because they fit nicely into a busy schedule, and are very good for enticing non-gamers into the roleplaying hobby.
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- The Seven-Sided Die blog
Running Savage Stonehell • Playing nothing • Scheming Savage Worlds in Shaintar • Reading A Game of Thrones
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May 10 |
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What are good character creation options for a Doctor in The Burning Wheel? If you're going to do 4 LPs, throw in a repeat of Student and use those points to broaden your skill base. Get some Inconspicuous, City-wise, Soothing Platitudes, and move some of your general skill points out of wherever they are now into some Knives (scalpels!) and Oratory/Persuasion/Ugly Truth/Falsehood (mix depending on your character concept). Remember that one point can give you a whole new skill at a lovely, failure-prone exponent! Also, don't ignore Bloodletting—in this setting it's useful medicine. |
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May 10 |
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What are good character creation options for a Doctor in The Burning Wheel? @Cthos "yeah, that one" |
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May 10 |
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Does anyone know a good system for building a city? My go-to system for collaboratively building any setting stuff is playing a session of Microscope. It's not specific to city-building (hence a comment-not-answer), but could do it handily. Sounds like a short session would give you plenty to work with. |
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May 10 |
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What are good character creation options for a Doctor in The Burning Wheel? @Cthos Which might be a fun character concept, if that's the millstone you're looking to carry! |
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May 9 |
awarded | Electorate |
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May 9 |
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What published D&D adventures take place in the Astral Sea/Plane? Tagging note. There's no Astral Sea in pre-4e D&D—it was the astral plane before and I gather that it's quite different. If you want details about the astral plane to poach for merging into the Astral Sea, keep the tags as-is: there are a lot of pre-4e resources. Otherwise add the [dnd-4e] tag to limit answers to material relevant to the 4e Astral Sea. |
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May 9 |
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Are there any Ubiquity System blogs? fix formatting |
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May 8 |
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What are good character creation options for a Doctor in The Burning Wheel? +1. Buy-in isn't just a good idea, it's the rules. If even the GM is cheating if they burn up a monster and don't get its stats approved, that goes double if players don't get group approval for their character's stats. |
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May 8 |
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PC characteristics overruling player intent @Jon Yeah, FATE is one of the systems I was thinking of. |
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May 7 |
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Do fire spells cast underwater still affect creatures vulnerable to fire? Yes. Notably, heat metal doesn't produce a naked flame yet it explicitly says that a creature takes fire damage if its equipment is heated, so as far as the rules are concerned, "really hot" == "fire". |
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May 6 |
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Regional Resource Management and Trade Rules For a nice text on fantasy economics of this top-down variety, Grain Into Gold is well-written and a pleasure to read. I don't have the economics background to vet the work, but it's certainly convincingly done, deriving the cost of things like a house in the city from the relationship to the basic cost of bread, via the cost of farm labour, skilled labour, and so on. Here's a good review of it. |
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May 6 |
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PC characteristics overruling player intent I could name names of games that implement this stuff if anyone's curious or want to do some first-hand research into such systems, but I wanted to avoid even the possibility of the appearance of system evangelism in the answer. |
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May 6 |
answered | PC characteristics overruling player intent |
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May 5 |
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From D&D3.5 to GURPS update the Natural Encyclopedia link |
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May 5 |
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Convert a D&D 4e adventure to another level Related: How do I use the same type of creature as characters level up without using more of them? |
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May 5 |
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Explain why Ubiquity doesn't have an asymmetrical bell curve like most dice pool systems? Well, it's an interesting consequence of common dice-pool designs, so that's really the all the reason one might need to focus on it. |
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May 5 |
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What is the statistically superior character creation method, twelve 3d6 or six 4d6? edited tags |
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May 5 |
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Earthdawn dice roll probabilities edited tags |
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May 5 |
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Explain why Ubiquity doesn't have an asymmetrical bell curve like most dice pool systems? clarify the Q title |
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May 5 |
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3d6 vs a d20: What is the effect of a different probability curve? edited tags |
