Unanswered Questions
147 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What is this RPGA world/campaign design contest winner (ca. 2006?) I remember?
More than a decade ago, my best friend had an online subscription to various D&D materials. When he was back home visiting, he let me spend a few hours exploring this treasure trove. From what I ...
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Looking for a product with a specific inn in a drow city
Our last play session with me as rotating DM ended with the party about to enter the (classic Greyhawk version) Vault of the Drow. Currently, I am a player in another DM's game, but when it cycles ...
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Is it possible to translate in-place after inapposite travel?
When a creature travels via inapposite means (inapposite gate, harness, directly from the strange, etc), will end up out of context when the laws of the destination recursion differ, and will begin ...
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Halloween issue of InQuest that talked of pre-Hollywood origins of classic monsters
In the mid-late ’90s a magazine called InQuest/InQuest Gamer printed suggested material for role-playing games (often D&D but also L5R, GURPS, WoD and others). It was published between April 1995 ...
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Are a data fortress's programs always visible in their cells, or only triggered when a netrunner passes by their cell?
In all the samples of Netmap, we can see a data fortress with walls, gates, CPUs, memories, and also programs in a determined cell.
Now I wonder, when the netrunner enters in the subgrid and starts to ...
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How to Reconcile Pax Arcanum and Permission of New Second Awakenings?
Archmasters possess superhuman capabilities of both foresight and scheming, have immense supernatural powers, and are always on the lookout for aspirants. The Pax Arcanum forbids interfering with ...
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What range scale does a human-sized Mek-Pirate use?
Some of the really nice tech in the Mekton Workshop costs a lot. Cloaking demands to add 0.8 to the final cost multiplier for active, fire control, combat cloaking.1 And another 0.33 for a the dirty ...
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Balancing new critters in Mouse Guard
I am currently developing a campaign setting using the rules and lore for Mouse Guard. The setting will be similar but not in the same geographical location (Northern Michigan) that the original was ...
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How can I construct/modify conflict resolution to make player tactical skill a primary determining factor in combat?
While I find FATE 2.0's conflict resolution system satisfying for many purposes, one area where it frequently falls short is in highly-detailed combat. If I'm expected series of highly detailed one-on-...
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How do you play as a Zeky-lineage Promethean in a CoD chronicle?
The New World of Darkness—now known as Chronicles of Darkness—introduced a new type of character called Prometheans. These beings are constructed from one or more dismembered and reassembled corpses, ...
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Looking for a specific softcover book from the 90's, one in a series of 3 I think, had white cover about overpowered artifacts
I had the book in question at one time and lost it during a move. The front and back covers were glossy and white with not the greatest art. I think it was the 2nd in a series of 3, but I could never ...
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What is the name of the location the Nethys ascended?
In pathfinder's Golarion, there's a god called Nethys who ascended to godhood. I'm looking for the location of this ascension. I'm happy to have information about any pathfinder edition or lore ...
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When using or crafting a Spellcasting item, do modifiers that apply to spellcasting apply?
Specifically, I am interested in if the Power Boost power (from the Prometheum Exxet) could interact with an item that has the Spellcasting power (though there may be other cases where interactions ...
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Is this homebrew Undine race balanced?
As part of a setting I'm running a game for, I'm interested in creating a species based on the undine of folklore - a spirit of freshwater, with an enchanting presence and voice.
In the lore of my ...
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Are the Statlines of the Kusarigama and Manriki-Gusari flipped?
Mage 20th anniversary edition offers some weapons. In fact, it offers the most extensive weapon toybox in all 20th anniversary edition books. Among them is the category of "whips and chains"....