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just search for 'critter' in my posts. There's about 15 results. It's a very simple system; invent a skill with an evocative name, assign a skill level by GM fiat, and optionally, announce the skill name when you roll it.

I do have some critter skill rules you might like to adopt. They should import into Pathfinder ok and they could make the fluffies and scalies much more entertaining

First thought that entered my head: "Crikey! This Dalek's a bit stroppy!"
(I am sorry)

Delete your email to save the planet? Really? I suspect rescuing paperclips out the bin would have a bigger environmental impact.

This goes in the crossover hall of fame. Immediately joins the shortlist of all-time favorites.

I wouldn't follow a shop-only feed, because I'm not interested in just sales, but D&D banter plus shop stuff is fine by me. More important is that if you ever want to write about stuff that might hurt sales, segregate /that/, because if people block that stuff, everything else would get caught too.

Also, is it a problem that in fact needs to be fixed? If no-one's complaining, then no harm no foul. Otherwise I'd just give an item to whoever has fewest and destroy one for whoever has most. Or let them sacrifice it, if you can find a more satisfying path to disposing of it.

and then find it. And then advance the plot on them a notch. Something along those lines.

If your PCs have 5%, 10% and 15% spot hidden and the lowest D100 roll is 60, I'd give the result to whoever rolled 60. But I would mess with them for being that rubbish. For example, I might multiply the time taken to find the clue by 5 or more in that case, or make 'em give up, go home, come back,

results. Or, lowest crit wins, or, if no crits, lowest special result wins. Unless Call of Cthulhu has completely abandoned D100 style resolution since I last played it?

Could be, but it's not really worth losing sleep over. The purpose of 'best roll' is simply to obtain an automatic success while still giving the players something to engage them (in this case, they're competing with one another). So I'd just say lowest roll wins and not worry about special or crit

Steves love sleeves.

#dailylie

Correction: Israel IS attacking safe zones and rescue workers while blocking the entry of food items into Gaza.

For clues and Spot Hidden, there's a pretty simply hack. Put the clue there, whoever rolls highest on Spot Hidden finds it. If the best roll is a bit rubbish, you can have a bit of fun messing with the players, but if not Spotting will stall the scenario, you want to sneak in an automatic success.

I'll tack this tip on because it's the second time it's come up in a short period: "If failing a skill roll would completely derail the adventure, the characters automatically succeed," and their skill rolls only determine their degree of success, or how long it takes them to do the necessary work.

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A clear success.

I like to mould noobs

Or you can make them roll. Whoever rolls lowest (or highest) get targeted. Can add some extra complications if there's a tie

superhero system, able to encompass any part of the genre from the last 80 years. But because it's got EVERYTHING, curating the powers and filtering out just the content suitable for, say, a silver age setting, would be a lot of work. To get a consistent D&D setting would be several times harder

D&D is a pastiche. I think that's perhaps the main thing I find to disappointing about it. There's got to be twenty good games buried inside D&D, but separating them out would be like trying to separate a mix of salt and sugar. I noticed something similar with Mutant and Masterminds. It's a great

might be even more brutal than a modern one, and the characters could get themselves into extra trouble by tricking them, temporarily, with high-tech. But once they understand how they’ve been tricked, they may carry a real grudge for being made to look foolish.

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#StarWars scenario hook #40 - Before A Lady's Favor

Scenario hook #39 introduces a crime boss on a primitive world, which is an unusual twist on the type. So this planet could be an interesting setting to run an adventure or two before the crime boss is dealt with. A low-tech crime boss

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about it, right. IDK, brains suck.

fine creating entire new sectors and even drafting RPG supplements in that setting. Surely knowing that the RQ lore I don't know about is good, and internally consistent, and scholarly should make the setting more attractive to me, not less? After all, I can add new material progressively as I learn

bronze age lore because it's a bronze age setting, and I want to know about the culture, practices and beliefs of the time. But, I have to accept that I'm being irrational because there's just as much Star Wars lore I don't know and don't even care about (cos a lot of it is utter rubbish), and I'm

I'm sympathetic to both of these. There was a time, more than 3 decades ago, when I was fully current on all the RQ lore. But I stopped following, and got behind, and now the idea of catching up again is daunting, even though RQ was my first RPG love. Especially as I want to learn more real-world

But, not a bug

the other players to guess which game they're restocking. As a bonus, due to a shipping error they also get some other treasure from a completely different game and they have to find some way to incorporate it into the dungeon.

I had an idea for a nerdy parlour game called "Restocking the Level". Pick a random computer game, and two players. The pretence is that those two players are employees of the dungeon, and have a wagon train of treasure, replacement monsters, and a trap-resetting checklist, and the object is for