Simons Mith

I don't think he has the mental capacity TO lie. In order to lie, you have to know what reality is, and then say something else, and you have to be intending to deceive. Trump just says whatever seems expedient at the time. If, half a sentence later, it's expedient to say the opposite, he does that.

By her /and/ about her. I think she's earned her own, TBH

The guide, unless I was playing someone evil and very low-wisdom. But trying to swim off with a treasure chest full of heavy gold doesn't sound like a winning strategy

If she had said 'You /may/ have to go all the way down...' I'd have thought it a very wise warning. You can sometimes get a very long way before realising you're going in the wrong direction, but as soon as you've realised, you should correct.

Ursula's sticks hardest on me.

That's workable, and would let me admit a lot more of the nonsense into my game than I currently do. Could be very useful, because there's a lot of cool-looking material with stupid fluff content and vice versa.

Thank you, David

Applies to bonuses, penalties, inspiration, XP, NPC contacts, promotions, noble titles, in-game rewards and prizes, and anything else I can think of. One of my own PCs earned the Freemanship (well, Freedwarfship) of a town. That kind of award really sticks with players.

Simple rewards, but sometimes named for flavour.

In D&D terms, you don't just hand out 1000 bonus XP, you hand out the Most Kobolds Prize, or the Tastiest Wizard Award. And if a PC does something entertainingly rubbish you can still hand out a named award for zero XP.

Can he imagine anything? I'm dubious

I want his brain to rot away inside his head while he's still alive. And I'm getting my wish.

Approximately 17% of secretary birds are only secretary birds part-time. The rest of the time, they are telegraph poles.

#dailylie

Intimidation check against the guard is probably the simplest option. If he didn't see anything, no harm, right?

I am by no means the only one to immediately think, "Someone should totally write a story where there's a murder at the seminar."

I might have seen my first YouTuber out in the wild this evening. If one of the Numberphile/Computerphile peeps (being intentionally vague, but they did a video recently) was at King's Cross Station at about dinnertime, that was them.

The intertubes are leaking!

'click' and I'll be able to rewrite them completely as one of the 'good' rules.

off over time, and when it has dropped far enough below a threshold, I call it done. But I do have some instinct for when I have a good rule and when I have one that merely works. The good rules need far less attention. the workaday rules, I'm kind off stalling in the hope that something will

I don't know. Reason I don't know is that the revisions overlap, and it's basically impossible to tell when one revision ends and the next begins. Writing, rewriting and editing are an iterative process that feed off one another. The process never fully ends, but editing activity eventually trails

I have a partial skill list for this game already. Get Into Trouble and Get Out of Trouble were the fist two skills. I since have added Go Kerflump in the Night, Feign Starvation, Sleep Dangerously, Midnight Toe Attack! and many more

No doubt there's some hidden meaning to the deployment of /apple/ crumble in this situation, rather than, say, rhubarb. These gang signals can be so subtle

I have a late entry from a friend to submit: the D licious.

'Humble'? IIRC that was a formidable mech.

I liked the Warhammer, I think. That was the one with a PPC-10 in each arm, wasn't it? Packed a right wallop if both hit

Yeah, that is a great name.

Rename your newsletter ? I know this might sound facetious, but a little bit of social engineering might be all you need

How can it be underpowered with four engines? Did they put frigate engines no a cruiser or something?

Being a teacher, apparently. A lot of the skills are readily transferable. I'm not a teacher, but I think I can see several ways this could work.

a selection of typical place names, just as I always try to come up with two or three quotes or some dialogue rules for an NPC. For a location, placenames are sort of the equivalent of character quotes.

It's very important to describe triggers for several senses rather than just sight. Pictures are nice to have, and a selection of placenames, and a local custom or two, along with explanations of how they arose.

For Star Wars planets I want to establish the habit of always coming up with

The song worked.

That's how the same tables would tend to be presented nowadays, and I hope it's clear how treating them as supporting material rather than 'compulsory' makes them much more useful and far less onerous for the GM.

#ttrpg 5/fin

chances for combat, trading, exchange of information and so on. GM tip: pre-roll a few random encounters in batches, adjust them as desired, and then fit them in to the adventure in a way that works with the plot. If they don't fit, don't use them at all.'

#ttrpg 4/?