RobboG

//In exchange you're a "hobbyist" grade in all liberal arts, "professional" grade in art, and "world class" in sculpture// I think you meant world class in art and professional grade in art. If I understand the system,

Both of these are going out in Gamer+ News today.

RobboG: Not in the way I splayed that tree, no. Liberal arts is the primary skill and that's at 3 (hobbyist). Art is the secondary skill and that's at +4 for a total of 7 (professional). Sculpture is the tertiary skill and that's at +3 for a total of 10 (world class).

hairylarry: Glad you're enjoying the reviews. More to come.

I envy your talent for summarizing complex rules systems so concisely and logically.

The secret is to ignore most of them. :D

This is a good read. Recommended.

Thanks. :D

That's dark.

Gallows humour is a popular thing here. :D

Wait till your commercial for it goes viral.

I'll swap you your book for 1,000,000 Wuhan 2019-nCoV viruses!

(Alternatively I'll swap you your book for NOT sending you 1,000,000 Wuhan 2019-nCoV viruses.)

Wuhan du yu think yu are? :D

cool

Let me know when you want to play. I'll play if I can.

Larian's been doing a Thursday night game on the Ember Discord.

I should get in on that. I love what I've read so far.

You like me! You really like me!

No, I like the book you wrote. :P

This review makes me want to play in RobboG's charming setting.

RobboG has an eye for interesting characters.

In gaming, as in fiction, the character is most important.

Bizarre and somewhat scandalous.

It is bizarre. It is somewhat scandalous. And it is on my wool coat's lapel right now.

At the office, the only person who noticed was our designer and he started laughing so hard I was concerned for his continued breathing. I suspect he's ordering one.

(He uses a million Adobe products every day, so he's both a fan and a hater at the same time, which makes this pin perfect for him!)

I started my video editing career with Premiere years and years ago. I have since migrated to open source solutions mostly Blender and Open Shot. My daughters, Megan and Gretchen, use Adobe products all the time for journalism and design. So I get the fan and hater at the same time comment.

Ok then. That was hard to read and it's just the review. I think you convinced me not to download it. I am way to unruly for a game like this.

I tried my hardest to get the insanity down coherently in this review. The books are ... waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more incoherent than even this review. :-o

Another excellent commentary on an interesting game. I'm thinking if you do 10 or 12 of these you've got a book. Especially if you can get permission to use some of the artwork.

10 or 12? At this rate I'm going to be book-ready by the end of December! :D

I dread my next one, however. Because it will be starkly negative (which I'm not a fan of doing) and because to review it I'll have to read it again (which I REALLY don't want to do! :D)

That's why I avoid writing negative reviews.

We celebrate it all right. But I didn't get to play family game like I hoped.

We did play family game yesterday before my gig at the library. New Jazz In Jonesboro is now done for this year. As far as next year goes, that's in the future. Do you think I have 2020 vision?

Thanks for a very thoughtful and detailed review. I'm a fan of M&M and I'm going to break out my pdfs.

I fell in love with that game ... sometime in 2005? The jokes were funny, the game charming, and yet oh-so-playable. It was a joke, but not ONLY a joke. (Unlike Hackmaster which is only a joke and playing it is ... performance art?)

I have heard of this game and I seem to remember the cover art but I have never played it. I go for the militantly free.

I posted at MixRemix and included a link to this review. https://mixremix.cc/2019/11/27/mazes-and-minotaurs/

6:30 Central time, right?

Yes, that's right. Should be a good game.

I'm impressed.

Thank you Sir.

Yeah the paste function isn't loving my jpegs. :D

Love the cover art.

I love the contents. We've had words about the layout... ;)

I would like to play again.

This evil tree is the embodiment of a forest fire and was killing the forest. Drawn by my grandson Conner, age 6.

Not unless you count Shadowrun.

So fairies on the internet? Or urban fairies? Both? I read a book where a fey based computer game would take the players to the other side. It recreated the whole Tam Lin story. I found it, "Feyland". Kind of like "Ready Player One". I haven't seen any games on this theme.

Well, now that I've had a night to dream on it, I picture an alternate history where WWII blew apart the separation between the fey lands and the world of humanity and a far larger war broke out: faerie vs. human. At first humans lost at tremendous costs in life, but technology, being more reliable and available to anybody to use instead of only those "Gifted", turned the tide and the war was taken to Fae itself.

Now, a century later, we live in a world where higher-than-current tech and magic interweave. A great number of fae have embraced technology. Humans, naturally, don't trust fae and have made them an underclass, and deep in the thickest bowels of the darkest corners of Fae the greatest of the old-time powers sit and brood and gather their forces to return battle to the humans.

This would give us a few interesting social classes: humanity (in two subclasses: the ruling powers and the underclasses), the subsumed (fae who've embraced technology, interacting primarily with the underclasses since their way into the ruling classes is blocked), the unsubsumed (fae of weak to middling power who refuse to embrace technology) and the Powers (the ancient Fae nobles scheming to get back on top).

I should write this up somewhere.

Yes, this is good and has plenty of room for more elaboration.

I am actually fascinated by this idea. I keep running through my head about how to incorporate the Wild Hunt which would be more feypunk than cyber fey.

Well, if a tipsy brain outpouring generates interest like this, maybe it's worth writing up!

I've started writing up the background story and am researching where in history this could come down (I'm aiming for very late in WWII). I'm also picturing the Fae outbreak picking up the flavours of where they break out, so the first batch breaking out in Nazi Germany adopted all the Nazi symbolism and paraphernalia, because part of my dream that expanded from a stupid name for a genre involved a being with alien beauty and grace doing a Hitleresque speech to a horde of humans and things, along the lines of "Power of the Will" and such.

I am fascinated by the Wild Hunt. In a Western setting I am writing for I introduce the Riders in the Sky -spirits that stay out of Hell by getting bad men to change their ways.

So maybe Blitzkrieg is Wild Hunt.

The Fae outbreak in Japan could be Samurai, a popular role playing archetype.

I am incredibly weary of the geek obsession with pseudo-Japanese tropes. I have something else planned for that region…

How about a near future where the sleeping fey awake and reveal that they, via proxy, are the actual 1% that own most of the worlds wealth. Now that they are awake they begin flexing their influence and wealth, dividing up the world despite governmental interventions.

Effectively, you get a cyberpunk style world with incorporated fey courts instead of Megacorporations controlling everything. Those working for the fey are bound by more than contracts, thus making "free" mercenaries much more rare and interesting as PC potential. Perhaps the PC are all fey blooded humans. Just human enough to be "free" but still magically empowered by fey ancestry.

ZDL - Probably much better than anything I could suggest. Keep me informed.

@Reidzilla: I'm shooting for the fey being the underclass, though, because usually games have the fey (or their stand-ins like elves) be some kind of revered or feared overclass.

And because I want the image of a brownie (or equivalent) in cybergear. :D

@hairylarry: So, I was originally going to put the court of the Yellow Emperor in this part of the world, but then decided it would be here … just in time for the Mongol answer to the fey to take them out of the picture and send them packing. :D

Wow, keep with it. This is interesting stuff.

The heavenly court being sent packing by the Mongol powers has led me down a path where some of the fey powers actually allied with humanity against their fellows. This makes for an even more convoluted set of factions.

I feel that especially in the underclasses having mixed parties sharing common goals would be cool.

That is part of the invent. I'm also looking at similar strained alliance potential in the upper crust like the Mongol spirit-displaced Xianren having worked with the human world because of their hatred for the Mongol horde that hit them from behind while they were eradicating the Kami.

Intent, not invent. Autocorrect strikes again.

Invent is also appropriate.

Are they candy?

They're scotch bonnet peppers. Some of the hottest peppers in the world. :D

She is mean and liable to be held on assault charges, Larry. :D

Oh, these aren't mine! Had I known about this trick earlier they could have been, mind… so I guess RobboG isn't far off the mark.

I see they are peppers now. Spicy is right.

It's supposed to be Halloween, not Aprils Fools Day.

And we're going to celebrate Halloween with freezing temperatures in Arkansas. I guess the joke is on us.

Which part of "trick" in "trick or treat" was unclear? :D

(To be fair, "trick or treat" is usually worded as extortion, not asking which it is…)

Do they have the grey box with the black speech balloon? Clicking on that opens the 'comment here' box.

Not sure but I think Wall posts don't have comments and Newsfeed posts do. Sometimes a picture doesn't have a comment but if I click on it and go to the Photo Gallery there's a place for comments. If there is no place for a comment try clicking on the header or the user or the picture. Thanks for asking. I will be looking for posts without comment boxes and see if I can come up with a better answer.

OK, RobboG had it. I didn't understand what the black square with the little thing sticking out at the bottom meant. Sure enough the ones that don't have a box have that button and clicking on it gives me the box.

Thanks, RobboG!

The trick I use is to describe a creature or whatever in several different -related ways.

That's what I was trying to get at with the Yeeks.

Oh you did. I'm writing a blog on Yeeks, or what I have about them so far. You can read it but it has spoilers.

Maybe I'll wait until after I play some more. O would rather discover about Yeeks in the game.

Who drew the Yeep?

The Yeep! is mentioned in Gamer+ News this week.

I can't seem to find the news you speak of :D

You should have it in your email. Also here - https://archive.gamerplus.org/blogs/73

Who drew the cat?

I did and I was trying for a Yeep.

Looks like a cat to me. And we did discuss cats in space.

Yeep 2.

I will point out that dogs can use litter boxes or pads to do their business mine do (... usually). If the base has cat(s), it has dog(s).

pets in space - it's inevitable - even Yeeps

Concerning Yeeps -you, might wind up the pets.

You guys were a great group!

If you want to play message me.

Larry, my friend QuartzBlue is going to try to make it.

Great. I think we have four players here. And then we might have some surprises but at least we won't have too few players.

My old school minis don't feel so old school now.

The Pharoah Tutankamen is sitting around a table with his concubunes. King Tut says, "Roll for initiative."

In most games I am in there are girls playing. Usually my wife, my daughters, my granddaughters, my daughters in law. So you know how I feel about objectification. Male player, female player. Male character, female character. Makes no difference to me. If they're dwarves you usually can't tell. And it's impolite to ask.

I personally think the female dwarves wear fake beards when traveling to avoid undue attention but clean up pretty well, which led humans to believe they were bearded like the males.

I'm of the school where all dwarves have beards and humans can't tell male from female but the dwarves think they know but they aren't always right which leads to some awkward honeymoons.

Yi-i-i-i-i-kes. For good measure say that dwarves can't tell elf males from females without practice. :D

Even the Dalai Lama agrees that women are only worth their looks, so it's obvious that charts like that are needed.

8-/

I rolled up ebony hair, alabaster skin, brown eyes, 4' 9" 32-24-32. Cha 15. Infatuated very easily and what today we call low maintenance. :3

Obviously the daughter/sister of an evil high priest. :D

Back home Friday night. Heading back to Helena in the morning.

When were these games released?

Early 80's IIRC.

Yep. 1982.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man,_Myth_%26_Magic_(role-playing_game)

This is the Yaquinto thing?

Yep.

1982 - that's old

I'm old. :D

Put together for storage/transport.

So cool.

I downloaded it. It looks playable. Great art.

Yeah that too. Wendy is looking good. :D

Now that's funny

Carl's game, Wizards and Heroes, uses a d20 and 2 d6. (3 to roll stats) It turns out that 2d6 with advantage averages within a few hundredths of a d8 and 2d6 with disadvantage averages within a few hundredths of a d4. The spread is different but the average is the same. So you can approximate d4 and d8 with 2d6. And you can approximate percentile with d20*5. And if you need d10 just double the target and roll d20.

I like using a pool of d6. You start with 2d6. A bonus gives another die. So does a penalty. Bonuses and penalties cancel out. If you are left with no bonuses or penalties net -roll 2d6. If there are penalties roll that many extra dice and take the lowest two. If there are extra bonuses roll that many extra dice and take the two highest. It's less of a bump than just adding mods to 2d6.

2d6 with slight advantage - roll 3 use 2 highest

2d6 with advantage - roll 4 use 2 highest

2d6 with big advantage - roll 5 use 2 highest

...

Yeah I figure rolling more than 5d6 is silly too. :D

Interesting. Good analysis.

thanks

I find it is easier to improvise and evoke atmosphere if you have a certain amount of details worked out. What's over that hill? Well I know there was a necromancer living here forty years ago but vanished, a group of knights set a watch over the area and vanished as well and the centaur worlds are nearby. Centaurs in scavenged armor fighting undead!"

sound and I both read the Fritz Lieber and Jack Vance fantasies that were models for many D&D ideas and quests. I also enjoyed Andre Norton, Ursula K. LeGuinn, and L. Sprague de Camp. The floor is open for authors that may have influenced your quests or your idea about what DnD is all about.

I read many books by Anne McCaffrey,Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, Marion Zimmer Bradley, CJ Cherryh, Larry Niven and Poul Anderson and on and on........

We are setting up actual play podcasts in Tenkar's Tavern. I'm calling it "If You Play You Win". Here's the plan, one offs, pregens, anyone can jump in, rotating DMs, the DM chooses the system and the quest. Are you interested in running a quest on your rules elite system? Sounds like a perfect match.

So far I can run either a Supers game or an SF (Space 1999 really) game with little notice. The system is pretty easy to use online. I am interested in play testing it.

I have you on the list. I think Draklorx is going to DM a Star Wars game in a few weeks. That will be our test run. I will keep you in the loop.

https://archive.gamerplus.org/blogs/39

Thank you sir. I would like some input on what kind of game will go over well.

I would too. I guess we'll find out after we play a few. I like fantasy gaming but our first session will be Star Wars. DM picks.

Could I join a game as a player? I never ran a game on a podcast and would like some experience. :D

Good idea. You can play in the Star Wars game. I'll get back with the exact date and time when we've got it scheduled.

https://archive.gamerplus.org/blogs/post/54

How do I send a PM? :P

Thank you for the invite BTW. Forgetting my manners here :D

To send a private message you go to the gamers profile. Right below the username there is a Send Private Message button.

Thanks!

Thanks. I'll add that to A Funny Thing Happened Storming The Castle.

Just imagine the besiegers show up and they're all done up as clowns? :D

I worked Evil Clowns into a rewrite of the empty chest item.

Congratulations.

Thanks!

sweet

I have too much white space on the cover I think.

Was this on thingiverse? I love the gnarly detail.

yes, it was. one of the other managers where I work, got a 3D printer and offered to print up some things for me as he experiments... this was one he found for me. He doesn't play, but he's getting interested now lol

I'll have to try to find it.

She made up the herbs and now she's making up how they look.

Thanks!

It came out pretty good but I still like the original font better. I've been working on the rss feed and links in the footer but I'll look into that first font later.

I still can't find that dang font. :D OTOH I think this is far more legible.

The new one might be better but the other one was more weird. Still I'm good if you are. We're finding a lot of cool fonts but so far not that one.

That's exactly what has to happen. We have to make it happen. Thanks

It's cool being on the ground floor of a new social media site again.

It is nice to see it grow. I hope we can gather all the scattered G+ folks.

My hope too. And other gamers around the world.

You can post links in the description.

Here's a site I use. I only download 100% free. I avoid free for personal use because I don't want to keep up with which fonts are personal use only. https://www.dafont.com/

Noce. I paid $20 for the 1001 fonts. I considered it well spent.

I just downloaded a bunch from 1001 Free Fonts including some weird fonts to use in puzzles where you have to figure out the meaning of text that looks kind of like English. Like decoding hieroglyphics.

Would you like me to turn that into 200x1200?

I sent a private message about this.

I'm sorry, I read 200X 200, not 1200. I will work on a banner design and get back to you. Thanks.

I see. Thanks.

If that font looks familiar to anyone I'd appreciate a heads. It doesn't seem to be on this computer. :P

Do you have a larger version of the artwork?

I can enlarge it.

Let's try it again. 300 dpi it is!

I turned this into 200x1200 like this. Do you like it?

I do! I will probably use both as appropriate. Thank you very much!

Post anything you want that's gamer related. It is fine to promote your products.

Yes, please repost your stuff here. This is a startup but we're growing quickly. We are offering free ads. Are you interested?

Just read a few posts at NUELOW Games podcast. I like what you're doing. Bookmarked your site.

I don't think we have a podcast? Can you send me a link? That said... I am interested in ads. Send me the info, please, as to what I need to do.

Send me the info on ads also.

I'd like the info as well. Hi guys, long time no see! It's Rob from MeWe.

I put the info into a blog so I can link to it. https://archive.gamerplus.org/blogs/post/19 I don't know where the cat came from.