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  1. Game News Dead Monarchy Released

    I'm pretty sure the trailer was made by the dude and the narrator is the dev, so I wouldn't expect it to be "exactly professional".
  2. Star Trek games

    You shouldn't play it again. It's a shitty dumpster fire of a dead game that's absolutely awful for anyone new or long-absent to return to.
  3. For grognards, when was the point of no turning back for DnD?

    Point-buy makes sense in single player, but tends to produce very bland, repetitive characters. Characters become interchangeable units as every character is produced to a factory spec. If you have to roll them in front of an actual DM, you're probably not gonna get a shitpile of 18s. Unless...
  4. Decline Critical role ruined PnP

    That is because before we used them for gaming, they were called "caltrops" and used specifically to cause pain to people. The use of the D4 in gaming came into being when officers confiscated the dice to discouraging gambling, but the soldiers still had leftover caltrops.
  5. For grognards, when was the point of no turning back for DnD?

    Look, unless you can do that in front of the DM, that's just making shit up. Or playing DarkSun. There's an argument to be said for "less is more". I've noticed this over the years: After a certain point, the more unit customization choices you actually have, the fewer choices you REALLY have...
  6. Decline Critical role ruined PnP

    This is why he makes SINGLE PLAYER games. Actual sex in a multiplayer game is just weird and wrong.
  7. For grognards, when was the point of no turning back for DnD?

    The hardcore munchkinism really started to creep in with the 2E expansions, and became core rules by 3E. This was the point at which we had character builds as the core mechanic, with all that it entails. Prior to that, you rolled some stats and picked a race/class, and a few pieces of fluff...
  8. Tactical games of starship combat

    Well, like I said, I've observed the following effects of making the game 3D: 1. Visualization of anything becomes VERY difficullt. There aren't really good ways to visually represent 3D space on a 2D display without heavy restrictions on viewport and loss of information. It gets to the point...
  9. Rule The Waves 3: NWS partners with Matrix Games to publish their grand fleet management game: Now in beta testing

    You're missing something important: This is how HUMAN players respond. AI players do NOT behave this way: They just crash headlong into disaster after disaster, starting or otherwise getting into endless fights that result in chaining defeat on defeat in a snowball of failure. Thus, when AI...
  10. Those instructions are incomprehensible to me here on Ye Olde Windoze and my understanding is...

    Those instructions are incomprehensible to me here on Ye Olde Windoze and my understanding is that trying to play AOW in this manner cripples the combat system anyway. I wish annoying narcissists on Youtube could just write the directions down like a normal person instead of being in love with...
  11. Age of Wonders 4

    The problem is that you don't have "A" high level unit, you have multiple, and you can't counter them with archer spam because of the arbitrary stack size limit, meaning you will not be able to outnumber the enemy with cheaper units.
  12. Rule The Waves 3: NWS partners with Matrix Games to publish their grand fleet management game: Now in beta testing

    You say this, but the most likely outcome even if a nation has some kind of impregnable baseline from which they can't be dislodged is that they get spawncamped into irrelevance as their units get destroyed instantly and they blow through all their resources trying unsuccessfully to escape a...
  13. Age of Wonders 4

    I don't think higher-tier units gain medals at the same rate as low-tier units. IIRC, from previous editions, higher tier units require more XP to level up. Can't get this to run on my computer so I don't know how it works here, but if it's the same, a straight medals-to-medals comparison isn't...
  14. Age of Wonders 4

    Yeah, I haven't followed the series in years. Last time I took a poke at was in 3, which was hilarious because it seemed like the sequel was a targeted attempt at nerfing everything I was doing in 2. Couldn't get the multiplayer to work, so lost interest. Last I heard it was thoroughly...
  15. Age of Wonders 4

    Makes sense to me. The thing with everything in reality is that shit only gets worse over time. This is part of the Laws of Thermodynamics: Entropy must always increase. So if he hasn't played a game in 10 years, that would mean that the level of shittiness he could tolerate in games was reached...

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