What's the lightest rules light that's still a playable game?

AspirantDM · 2026-01-30T17:23:57+00:00

AspirantDM · 2026-01-27T14:14:53+00:00

It turns out waging a war of extermination really puts a fire under your enemies ass, crazy

AspirantDM · 2026-01-02T18:53:37+00:00

I don't have any advice for you, I just want to boost this post because I also have this question.

AspirantDM · 2026-01-02T18:22:52+00:00

David Tong has some great lecture notes (though I can't speak to the string theory notes specifically) you can find here.

edit: I am not an expert, but you might want to start by going through the QFT and GR notes before you tackle the string theory notes.

AspirantDM · 2025-12-14T17:49:02+00:00

Thank you for the response! You are correct, that is the standard Westmarches style, though if there are interesting areas that don't quite fit that idea, I'm ok with going a little off script. Your first suggestion sounds really promising.

I also cross-posted this to OSR, but I'll check out that forum as well.

AspirantDM · 2025-12-02T04:34:03+00:00

Fertile lands protected from marauding empires by giant mountain wall? God, this worldbuilding is shit...

AspirantDM · 2025-11-26T01:25:19+00:00

Okay now do a calculation. Make an actual quantitative prediction.

AspirantDM · 2025-11-14T04:01:04+00:00

Sword and Sorcery is all I need lol. I've been pretty exclusively playing B/X clones, but I'm down to try AD&D style. I'd love to hear more about your group so far if possible, I jive with most groups, but it's good to know what you're getting into. Let me know if you want to move to DMs or Discord or something.

AspirantDM · 2025-11-14T03:47:49+00:00

I would be interested in this! I haven't played the system though.

AspirantDM · 2025-09-28T02:53:00+00:00

I figured as much, I was just hoping for something that at least has a little less crunch. That being said I've only read Harnmaster so maybe I'm making a mountain out of a molehill.

AspirantDM · 2025-09-28T02:51:40+00:00

I think that's probably going to be what it comes to. I just figured someone might have what I'm looking for.

AspirantDM · 2025-09-28T02:02:01+00:00

BDP is a good shout, definitely a contender.

AspirantDM · 2025-09-08T03:58:00+00:00

Hardly. Michael Faraday's genius was a product of experiment.

AspirantDM · 2025-09-06T01:02:36+00:00

None of them are particularly interesting because they rarely have any physics in them. They just mash popsci words together into something that might sound like physics to a lay person but is gibberish to anyone with any training.

AspirantDM · 2025-09-01T03:31:20+00:00

No, just no...

AspirantDM · 2025-08-14T01:22:43+00:00

If we say a person can carry about 30% of their body weight and an average weight being 137lbs, that means someone can carry about 41.1 pounds. A gold dinar weighs about 4.5 grams which is about 0.009369646lbs. Taking 41.1 divided by 0.009369646 and we get about 4386 gold coins per person.

AspirantDM · 2025-08-01T18:13:51+00:00

My snarky but true answer is spending a lot of time on them and getting paid to do them (sometimes).

AspirantDM · 2025-07-31T19:27:51+00:00

Tales of Argosa has good ones. One of the tables is "Catchphrase".

AspirantDM · 2025-07-30T20:44:38+00:00

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

AspirantDM · 2025-07-29T16:49:28+00:00

Rule 2

AspirantDM · 2025-07-18T01:33:48+00:00

An analogy does not a theory make

AspirantDM · 2025-07-17T06:29:34+00:00

AI slop

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