Quote from: Insane Nerd Ramblings on Today at 05:50:17 PMI wouldn't know the first place to startQuote from: BoxCrayonTales on Today at 04:33:23 PMI think that's a fair critique. There's thousands and thousands of Middle Earth rip-offs, but only one Nyambe and it's not even supported anymore.
Then what the Hell is stopping you from writing one? Chop, chop. Put up or shut up.
Quote from: jeff37923 on Today at 01:16:44 PMAnd this conversation just disappeared up its own ass.
Sorry, but Karl Marx and his teachings have nothing to do with how Tolkien was a major influence on early D&D. I give benefit of the doubt to young college socialists in the early 70s playing D&D and being horrified by the game's capitalist basis, but Tolkien was the author to read at that moment in time on college campuses if you liked fantasy.
Dragging Marx into this is like dragging Heinlein into this and declaring that Glory Road had less of an influence on early D&D than Stranger in a Strange Land.
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on Today at 04:33:23 PMI think that's a fair critique. There's thousands and thousands of Middle Earth rip-offs, but only one Nyambe and it's not even supported anymore.
Quote from: NotFromAroundHere on Today at 10:37:01 AMThis looks extremely interesting, pretty curious to see how much of this could mix and match with the other Companions...
Quote from: hedgehobbit on Today at 10:09:14 AMDuring WW2, the US army produced wargame rules. Not miniatures, but with actual soldiers running around fields pretending to shoot each other. These are listed in Field Manual 105-5.
https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USA/ref/FM/PDFs/FM105-5.pdf
Inside those rules, on page 14, is a chart of weapon effectiveness for resolving combat.
"Automatic Rifle" is the BAR while the "Light Machine Gun" is the air-cooled M1919 .30 cal which is usually described as Medium Machine Gun in most current day wargame rules such as Bolt Action.
In this chart a rifle get 1 point which, in wargame terms, matches up to 1 shot. So the number of shots in a wargame for various weapons would be:
Rifle: 1
SMG: 3
LMG: 3-4
MMG: 6
HMG: 10
If you compare these numbers to the shot in Bolt Action, you can see that Bolt Action undervalues machines guns by quite a bit. The only 28mm wargame that uses numbers close to these is Chain of Command. That game is great for infantry vs infantry but their vehicle rules are a bit crap.
Quote from: Brad on Today at 11:28:46 AM"My very first experience wanting to play Dungeons & Dragons was back in the '80s," says the 55-year-old Williams, who grew up amid the tobacco fields of North Carolina, "and there were some of my male friends in a basement, and I wanted to play, and they were like: 'No, you can't play. This isn't for girls.' I'm really excited that that is no longer the case."
Why don't I believe a single fucking word of this?
Quote from: BadApple on Today at 02:22:38 PMAs a kid of the 80s, I can tell you that she would have been welcome at any table I have ever known. "It's not for girls" was a jock thing, not a nerd thing.