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."

and now the player is sitting there for the entire session and probably complaining the entire time.  That's the sort of solution that sounds good but doesn't really work very well at the table. 

Either that or they argue about how they should be able to get away from the cops et cetera and that takes up a chunk of play time.

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One change that might help: if you roll and fail to advance, the check stays. Checks don't stack, but at least you have a chance to advance it next game session.

Quote from: JeremyR on April 19, 2024, 04:16:40 PMB/X was the one that literally came with its own setting . And yeah, it was meant to be more user friendly since it was aimed at children.

User friendly? Yes
Aimed at children? No

Let's be honest: we all know AD&D was created by Gygax so as to not pay royalties to Arneson for D&D. IT's part of the history.

Does anyone find it ironic that is was the Left during the late 60s into the 70s that was a champion of Tolkien's works? The "Frodo Lives!" slogan spry-painted on the walls of many college campuses by anti-establishment students is well known.

Today? Quite the opposite.

Now his works are denigrated by left-wing post-modernist pseudo-intellectuals.

Personally, I think it comes down to jealousy.

Those left-wing ass hats wish they had a 10th of the creativity Tolkien, Vance, Heinlein, and others had. Their short cut to creativity is the post-modernist route, which is a lazy man's way. All you're doing is taking all of the age old tropes of story-telling and reversing it all. That's it. Nothing more.

It's not creative. It's a stupid person's way thinking they're clever, which is pathetic.

Because the worst kind of stupid is the guy who thinks he's the smartest guy in the room, and everyone else knows he's as dumb as a sack of hammers.

I like this idea, it's something I've been toying with (again with a VTT system), but as others as posted it is not without it's problems.  Player abuse being one, maybe the most, significant issue.

Part of that can be handled by the GM.  A simple "No, you don't get a skill point for letting the kid hit your armor" would suffice in most circumstances I think.  At worst, a talk with the problem player may be necessary, and perhaps a swift boot off the table.

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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."

Classic Traveller and Megatraveller are the most compatible - as Megatraveller is the updated version of Classic (in a particular direction), rather like 1e and 2e AD&D.

Quote from: Eric Diaz on April 28, 2024, 08:29:00 PMI agree with some of the objections, but they seem easy to address: you skill spend XP as you want, but you can only spend them if you successfully roll over a skill you used.

That still gives players an incentive to find any excuse they can to make to make checks so they can succeed at one and advance that skill.  I had a player who wanted to go to a start a fight at a random bar in every scenario so he could make brawl checks to advance his brawl skill.  I had to say no because otherwise a chunk of every session would have been taken up by a pointless bar brawl.  That's just one example of players using whatever excuse they could come up with to make checks to advance their skills.  If the system gives players an incentive to do something, they are going to do it.

Quote from: Omega on Today at 12:55:02 AMI have not seen the TNG thing yet.

I think what I am trying to mean here is that some HD stuff looks almost too real. Again it is akin to how some movies shot on VHS can feel, or even some really old movies. Just moreso with HD.

For me at least it has nothing to do with the sets themselves.

A part of me keeps wanting to say it has something to do with the lighting. But its more than that.

That's probably what is called the Soap Opera effect.  The removal of motion blur from movies shot in 24 fps makes things look too smooth
https://www.displayninja.com/what-is-the-soap-opera-effect/

Quote from: Omega on Today at 12:45:18 AMCandlekeep is a big one. They dropped a few buzzwords and boom Pundit is all over it. But theres nothing in the book. They KNOW.

Did it work for them though?  Outrage on Youtube doesn't necessarily translate into sales.  Did this book sell?  WotC is hiding the numbers as much as they can but their current financial problems suggest that this book and other recent boo0ks that leaned into the outrage marketing haven't sold well.  RPGPundit has around 7,740 followers on Youtube.  I would argue that a lot of them are probably OSR types who were not going to buy Candlekeep anyway.  Does content on his channel affect sales significantly in either direction?  Does it matter at all?  Most people in the wider 5e players base have probably never heard of Kasimir Urbanski.