Quote from: yosemitemike on April 28, 2024, 08:48:04 AMAside from the cropping issue that has already been explained, a lot of older media was clearly never meant to be seen at 1080p.
Quote from: HappyDaze on April 26, 2024, 07:01:40 PMTo be fair, it's not like the extra rules are required, but yes, an increase in complexity is entirely reasonable when moving from essentially a squad-level skirmish game to a regimental-level game with air power, artillery, transport, and maintenance sections now playing roles in what is now a campaign long set of battles to resolve.Quote from: Ratman_tf on April 26, 2024, 06:23:01 PMThey didn't do anything to the heat system. However, they have bulked upt the rules to cover a lot of different things. If you play with the BattleMech Manual, you have a slimmed down but fairly robust (more so than Beginner Set) set of rules for 'Mechs. If you play with Total Warfare, you can add in almost every other type of unit for a moderate increase in complexity. Add in Tactical Operations, and you can complicate the hell out of things real quick with all sorts of special and/or optional rules, and there are even a few things beyond that if you buy into all the books.Quote from: GhostNinja on April 26, 2024, 12:22:21 PMI used to love Battletech. Sadly, I think once Catalyst got ahold of it they made it more complicated and more out of reach for many players.
I have been picking at designing my own Battletech style game, without the stupid heat issues and fixing some of the stupidity found in the rules which has kind of pushed me away from Battletech.
I got the Catalyst Battletech box, and it seems to be the same as the FASA heat system. What exactly did they do to make it more complicated?
Quote from: ForgottenF on April 26, 2024, 10:45:14 AMQuote from: Trond on April 26, 2024, 10:07:59 AMQuote from: Slambo on April 25, 2024, 09:58:38 PMQuote from: Trond on April 25, 2024, 09:22:19 PMHere's a question: these Africa-based settings, do they sell? Do black people actually buy them in larger numbers than they otherwise would?
I'm actually interested in trying a setting like that once (I also bought the Pundit's book based on India, and a few others that are slightly different from the norm). But I also suspect that the situation is a bit similar to what Bill Burr points out about women's sports ("they don't buy any tickets!!!" ).
Anecdotally, I'm not really attracted to African settings myself. Except Ancient Egypt based settings if you count that.
Well, Egypt does have a long history. Africa south of the Sahara is the opposite.
This is also part of the problem when people say that we should teach more history written by blacks or whatever. There's not a whole lot written even recently, and the proposition falls apart the moment we want something more ancient. "OK then, let's get some books based on prominent writers south of the Sahara from say 2000 years ago? Someone like Xenophon or Cicero maybe? ....No?"
On top of that, most of the market for RPGs, including among black people, is way more steeped in the European-Mediterranean cultural tradition than they are in the African. They're probably more comfortable roleplaying something like ancient Greece than they are ancient Africa.
This I assume is the reason there aren't more RPG settings based on historical China. There's plenty of source material, but it's not something the mostly Euro/American audience has much interest in.
Quote from: Omega on Today at 12:34:51 AMQuote from: Crazy_Blue_Haired_Chick on April 28, 2024, 05:31:24 PMHehe, you have a point.
I don't want OWoD to ever take on Japanese or even any East or Southeast Asian mythology in their games. The Filipinos have dealt with enough bullshit already!
Too late. They already did. Kindred of the East and a full on campaign set in modern Asia with some bits lifted from my own RPG because they are hacks.
Quote from: yosemitemike on Today at 02:57:30 AMQuote from: Crazy_Blue_Haired_Chick on April 28, 2024, 05:31:24 PMI don't want OWoD to ever take on Japanese or even any East or Southeast Asian mythology in their games. The Filipinos have dealt with enough bullshit already!
They did that ages ago.
https://whitewolf.fandom.com/wiki/Year_of_the_Lotus
Quote from: aganauton on Today at 07:36:27 AM@yosemitemike
Case in point, my approach to that player would have been. "Well, now that you've started the fight, your butt is in jail. Oh, by the way, you can add a skill point to the 'pick up the soap' skill."