The problem with MMORPGs is that a lot of the fun in a P&P RPG copmes from the dynamic between the players and GM, in an MMORPGs there's no GM, only rules that the players sooner or later try to bend their way and exploit in every way possible.
It's a common story but unforunately it has given some parents a false hope to cling on, some try to pass their genuinely dumb children off as gifted, push them into more difficult courses which the child really cannot handle and after a few years breaks down. Parents are starting to think that any behaviour anomaly (e.g. still peeing in your pants when you're 6 years old) is evidence that the kid is a genius.
Circles are enchantments, they can't tap. Sure they only stop one source but it's not easy to do damage with many different sources in order to exceed your opponent's mana supply (as many sources require mana from you to be used as well) and it greatly reduces the number of maneuvers you can perform. If the things were usable only once per turn you could just use a feint but with multiple uses you can end up needing so many feints that you don't have anything left to do damage, especially since regular defenses are still available to him so after depleting his shield mana you still have to deal with his creatures and whatever else he has fielded. It's possible that they were nerfed in some rule change later on, it's been a while since I played.
That just negates the upkeep, circles of protection could often blunt a whole attack. I mean, one freaking mana to avert all damage from one source? These things were close to invincibility, you were lucky if you could do any damage at all.
[GURPS] could be more detailed than some groups would want
I wouldn't hold that against it, after all you can ignore e.g. the magic system for your WW2 campaign but when you want to play swords & sorcery you probably want to have one at hand that you can use instead of needing to make one up first. Better to have all the rules you need to play psychic detective in Roman times than finding that you lack the rules for handling rifles, fighting newborn babies or adapting to new tech after a time travel if you need them.
When I was in school we did indeed have houserules for Magic though I don't remember much about them now. I think the most common rule was "no circles of protection" because those things were just massively cheesy.
Roleplaying for adults isn't much different from roleplaying for kids anyway, only that adults agree upon the rules beforehand while kids make them up on the fly (and often changing them as it suits them to do what they want generating a large number of essentially deus ex machinas).
Here in Germany the equivalent of the Sun has sales of 5 million. While that makes it the biggest "newspaper" it still doesn't let it reach the majority of the population. I'd like to see the Sun's sales numbers if it actually reaches the majority of the UK population.
Yes but a human competitor could also play the whole match. The point of the match was supposedly to demonstrate that the computer can perform the task (chess) better than a human but the computer still needed significant human help.
It just results in more junk selling, not more junk overall. Those casting band results? They would probably have formed different bands anyway and produced performances that are just as bad, except without even a qualified songwriter helping them. Of course music designed for marketing is a separate issue (e.g. most pop music contains shorter and shorter verses while the chorus plays a bigger and bigger role and gets repeated about ten times while the music is slowly fading out just to hammer it into your head) but I'm not sure that actually means lower quality, just different design.
- There is little(to no) danger of someone shutting off the servers (such as was done recently), since even if all the official servers went away, there would still be the unofficial ones.
Only true if it uses a P2P sructure or player-run masterservers to tell people about the servers that run, otherwise once the masterserver goes down all your player servers won't do anything because the client cannot connect to them (directly entering the IP of the server might be supported but don't count on it).
Booby traps are illegal because of false positives. Imagine a large bomb tied to your heartbeat. Now you get a heart attack in the middle of a crowd. Kaboom, lots of people dead. Imagine some more people had those things in the crowd. You get a chain reaction that leaves potentially hundreds or thousands injured or dead.
They also faked a terrorist attack by a religious minority on a famous building, enacting anti-terror laws as a response that allowed the country to be turned into a dictatorship.
It could be argued that he did compare the current government to the NSDAP. Considering those "anti-teror" laws it's only a question of time until a "muslim" sets the Reichstag on fire.
The problem is that a preorder ISN'T a guarantee that you'll have a copy with your name on it on release day. I could understand preordering if it was a guarantee but as is it just means they'll allocate units to you before they do to non-preorderers but don't say when you'll get your game, could be a month later depending on the availability and demand.
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I wanna see Uwe Boll vs. Regina Halmich.
You've never heard of the subfaction of Furries called "vores", eh?
They call it Second Life.
The problem with MMORPGs is that a lot of the fun in a P&P RPG copmes from the dynamic between the players and GM, in an MMORPGs there's no GM, only rules that the players sooner or later try to bend their way and exploit in every way possible.
It's a common story but unforunately it has given some parents a false hope to cling on, some try to pass their genuinely dumb children off as gifted, push them into more difficult courses which the child really cannot handle and after a few years breaks down. Parents are starting to think that any behaviour anomaly (e.g. still peeing in your pants when you're 6 years old) is evidence that the kid is a genius.
Circles are enchantments, they can't tap. Sure they only stop one source but it's not easy to do damage with many different sources in order to exceed your opponent's mana supply (as many sources require mana from you to be used as well) and it greatly reduces the number of maneuvers you can perform. If the things were usable only once per turn you could just use a feint but with multiple uses you can end up needing so many feints that you don't have anything left to do damage, especially since regular defenses are still available to him so after depleting his shield mana you still have to deal with his creatures and whatever else he has fielded. It's possible that they were nerfed in some rule change later on, it's been a while since I played.
That just negates the upkeep, circles of protection could often blunt a whole attack. I mean, one freaking mana to avert all damage from one source? These things were close to invincibility, you were lucky if you could do any damage at all.
[GURPS] could be more detailed than some groups would want
I wouldn't hold that against it, after all you can ignore e.g. the magic system for your WW2 campaign but when you want to play swords & sorcery you probably want to have one at hand that you can use instead of needing to make one up first. Better to have all the rules you need to play psychic detective in Roman times than finding that you lack the rules for handling rifles, fighting newborn babies or adapting to new tech after a time travel if you need them.
When I was in school we did indeed have houserules for Magic though I don't remember much about them now. I think the most common rule was "no circles of protection" because those things were just massively cheesy.
Roleplaying for adults isn't much different from roleplaying for kids anyway, only that adults agree upon the rules beforehand while kids make them up on the fly (and often changing them as it suits them to do what they want generating a large number of essentially deus ex machinas).
Deep Thought was an earlier version from the same team that was beaten "easily" by Kasparov in 1989.
In 42 moves?
I was thinking of the weapon potential of hot plasma in midair.
If you move, they win. If fear makes you move, terror wins.
Depends on whether you play a de_ or cs_ map.
Here in Germany the equivalent of the Sun has sales of 5 million. While that makes it the biggest "newspaper" it still doesn't let it reach the majority of the population. I'd like to see the Sun's sales numbers if it actually reaches the majority of the UK population.
Yes but a human competitor could also play the whole match. The point of the match was supposedly to demonstrate that the computer can perform the task (chess) better than a human but the computer still needed significant human help.
There's probably also loads of crap that was simply destroyed by time.
It just results in more junk selling, not more junk overall. Those casting band results? They would probably have formed different bands anyway and produced performances that are just as bad, except without even a qualified songwriter helping them. Of course music designed for marketing is a separate issue (e.g. most pop music contains shorter and shorter verses while the chorus plays a bigger and bigger role and gets repeated about ten times while the music is slowly fading out just to hammer it into your head) but I'm not sure that actually means lower quality, just different design.
- There is little(to no) danger of someone shutting off the servers (such as was done recently), since even if all the official servers went away, there would still be the unofficial ones.
Only true if it uses a P2P sructure or player-run masterservers to tell people about the servers that run, otherwise once the masterserver goes down all your player servers won't do anything because the client cannot connect to them (directly entering the IP of the server might be supported but don't count on it).
If they log in we can tag them as foes (and their karma would go down for the constant insults), if they don't we have to rate ACs down to avoid them.
Dunno, I always heard that they blamed the Jews for it.
Booby traps are illegal because of false positives. Imagine a large bomb tied to your heartbeat. Now you get a heart attack in the middle of a crowd. Kaboom, lots of people dead. Imagine some more people had those things in the crowd. You get a chain reaction that leaves potentially hundreds or thousands injured or dead.
They also faked a terrorist attack by a religious minority on a famous building, enacting anti-terror laws as a response that allowed the country to be turned into a dictatorship.
It could be argued that he did compare the current government to the NSDAP. Considering those "anti-teror" laws it's only a question of time until a "muslim" sets the Reichstag on fire.
The problem is that a preorder ISN'T a guarantee that you'll have a copy with your name on it on release day. I could understand preordering if it was a guarantee but as is it just means they'll allocate units to you before they do to non-preorderers but don't say when you'll get your game, could be a month later depending on the availability and demand.