@beyondmachines1 Alt text: A plate of cookies and a glass of milk. A sign reads, "Dear Santa, Due to GDPR regulations, we are required to inform you that this house uses cookies, and require that you accept them before leaving presents."
The BIPOC Book Fair is today! in #pdx in inner SE! Books for kids, books from authors of color, about characters of color! All children welcome (probably adults too!)
https://carlbrandon.org/events/
(I'll be helping with setup and clean up, I'm so happy this is happening here, and that I can help a little)
@marcusphelan Correct!
I dunno, man, even #GURPS Lite is awfully darn crunchy. For a simple sword attack:
1) Look up the appropriate skill for the attacker.
2) Apply modifiers for maneuvering, bad footing, visibility, etc.
3) Roll to hit.
4) Oh, you thought we were done? Defender chooses to dodge, parry or block.
5) Apply modifiers to defense.
6) Roll the defense.
7) You still hit? Roll for damage.
8) Subtract damage resistance of target's armor.
9) Multiply the remaining damage by a modifier for the damage type. "Small piercing" and "large piercing" have different modifiers.
10) Apply damage to target's HP.
11) Did you cross 1/3 HP or some other threshold? Special rules apply.
12) Target takes DX and IQ penalties for the next turn only.
This is "the fundamental rules, but not the options and embellishments that often confuse new players".
A combat round is one second. Say ... wasn't this designed by the same person who did Car Wars? 🤔
@woefulhc @tomhanney (But whatever I run will be face-to-face.)
@woefulhc @tomhanney I'm pro-map!
#2871 Definitely
@xkcd Low-key disappointed that there's no Defenestration of Prague joke here.
Another discovery: the Dungeon Fantasy bundle include the Dungeon Fantasy Companion, which includes Against the Rat-Men, the sequel to I Smell a Rat.
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@tomhanney The third edition GURPS Basic Set book differentiates basic and advanced. It looks like fourth edition abandoned this.
@tomhanney Do you have a particular video in mind?
Weirdly, unless I missed something, the @mongoosepub #Traveller core book doesn't give any advice on GMing or creating adventures. Apparently you just create a universe and let the Travellers loose in it. #ttrpg
@jonharmon I ran Numenera before Fate. The books are *gorgeous* and the artwork is imaginative, but a bit too much is left up to the GM. Having a monster represented by one number wasn't crunchy enough, and I didn't like constantly multiplying or dividing by 3 because the designer wanted to keep the number of levels low but also wanted to use a d20.
I don't know BRP, but it's now on my radar!
@jonharmon What do you like for medium crunchy?
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