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  • Makes sense if there’s one nation that dominates economically and/or diplomatically. Like English today, IRL.

    Though, if one group does not have such a strong influence, you’d probably end up with something like the “Lingua Franca,” a mix of multiple languages spoken by the most relevant nations (IRL, in Renaissance Western Europe that was a mix of Italian, Greek, Arabic, Turkish, etc.)

    So Common may not be a proper language at all, but instead be a creole/pidgin of all the other big ones. So characters hearing a language they do not speak might still catch words here and there allowing them to decipher the gist of what was said. Also, Common would most likely be spoken in more metropolitan areas. A backwoods farming town may only really speak their native tongue, save for the mayor or merchants.




  • This assumes anything would evolve in such an inhospitable environment. If it’s cold and oxygen is thin, it’d likely be as barren as mountain tops.

    I’d suspect they would perhaps be a popular place for large flying creatures who might like to make nests there in safety and use them as resting locations during long migrations

    They’d probably also attract humans and their ilk who wish to capitalize on the islands’ natural defenses as well. Though this would obviously come at a cost of seclusion. Goods would be difficult to transport and would probably cost more than in a city on the surface.

    I’d imagine they might still find settling up there worthwhile to mine whatever unique materials these islands hold. Perhaps the islands are composed of rare magical minerals that cause them to float. Minerals that would probably fetch a high price.





  • I’d like to add the OGL they were pushing would have effectively allowed them to steal homebrew and 3rd party content. They’d reserve the right to resell this content as their own or make it disappear altogether.

    This would include supplements and adventures, of course, but the way it was worded, it would even include blogs and YouTube videos, etc.

    Of course this isn’t a unique situation (Meta has done this forever, for example)





  • Off the top of my head, here are some I haven’t seen mentioned yet:

    I’ve only flipped through the rules, but I believe Call of Cthulhu (and by extension, it’s derivatives) has degrees of success/failure.

    Mutants and Masterminds has it too.

    Systems with a single d6 resolution mechanic tend to have it as well (like Freeform Universal and Neon City Overdrive.)

    Some systems, like Black Sword Hack don’t really have degrees of success/failure, but a near success can be ruled a “yes, but” at the GM’s discretion.



  • Thanks, you make some good points.

    Upon reflection, I do tend to approach the game with more combat than it’s designed for as my players love combat. And the general lack of dex and wil/cha attacks from sample foes in the various games just exacerbates the issue for me.

    I like the Wil damage from casting spells in Mausritter. (If I remember correctly, Into the Dungeon: Revived does it as well.) It makes casting more high-stakes, which is something I love in a game. To me, magic should be scary, even to the one weilding it.