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Quote from: yosemitemike on April 20, 2024, 06:11:34 PMFlaws in sets that were hidden in SD are suddenly visible in 1080p.  That floor outlet where the sci-fi panel plugs in was hidden in shadow in SD but now you can see it.  Some things were clearly never meant to be seen in 1080p.

No, it is not that at all. You could see that stuff without HD.

Not always. There are cases where shows were shot on 35 mm film at a 3:2 aspect ratio, and then cropped on both sides to 4:3 for broadcast. Sometimes when those shows are processed for HD, they take the original film negatives and crop them top and bottom to make a widescreen version of the show. This can lead to things that were originally intended to be cropped out appearing on screen.

There are also cases where the HD stream of a show is missing scenes, either by mistake or deliberate omission.

I see some problems with this approach.

1) Why does it matter whether you succeeded or not? You can learn just as much from failure. And as a starting character, you'll be failing a lot, and as GM there is good reason to reward failure.

2) Having to roll to see if your skills advance completely sucks. I say this from experience as a former Runequest player. It's hard enough to be a starting character without being unable to spend your xp. Especially when you then lose that xp.

3) By its nature, this will cause some players to advance faster than others, for no reason other than sheer dumb luck. That's not good. And if you say "over time it will all even out," you're wrong. The odds are exactly the same for each roll. The dice have no memory, and someone who pulls ahead because of a streak of lucky rolls is likely to stay ahead. And someone who falls behind is unlikely to catch up.

4) If you think it's bad when people get shafted once on advancement, wait until it happens twice right out of the gate. And it will happen twice to somebody. I wouldn't expect that player to come back.

5) How do you buy up new skills that you don't already have? What if nobody bought Cartography?

6) In Runequest, this encouraged what was called the "golf bag" approach, where players carried around a (figurative) golf bag full of different weapons, each of which they would use exactly once per session, to maximize their chances of getting a successful advancement check.

7) Some find the extra bookkeeping during play to be distracting. And the time spent rolling skill advancement checks comes out of game time.

Basically, this is point buy with extra steps. And those extra steps are problematic.

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Read the first one. Will plan to read future installments another day. I generally enjoy convention AAR's and this one was well done.

Here's a setting and rpg I did a couple years ago:

http://www.uncouthsavage.com/uploads/1/3/3/2/133279619/brffmt.pdf

Here's one that's really just the existing setting with the serial numbers filed off:

http://www.uncouthsavage.com/uploads/1/3/3/2/133279619/brffmt.pdf

Eurofantasy is oversaturated, trite and stale now. It's time for Afrofantasy and Sinofantasy to take over. Anyone who doesn't want that is a white supremacist who needs education. /sarcasm