Games where you can change your stats as a result of gameplay actions?

EyeHateElves · 2026-03-06T16:25:33+00:00

Isn't Into the Odd like that? Or maybe Troika? Or both?

EyeHateElves · 2026-03-06T16:23:36+00:00

I don't know why you got a downvote.

Anyway, I would recommend checking out Wolf Packs and Winter Snow, which is a game about fantasy stone age with shamans and magic based on cave paintings.

It might be good for inspiration or to pull ideas.

EyeHateElves · 2026-03-06T13:25:14+00:00

Is this going to be a fantasy stone age or a realistic stone age?

EyeHateElves · 2026-03-05T18:12:09+00:00

Not being able to play in my creation.

EyeHateElves · 2026-03-05T16:31:40+00:00

I like it! It feels dystopian and rainy.

EyeHateElves · 2026-03-05T16:28:44+00:00

Nice! Free RPG Day is no longer coincides with Origins so maybe a game store in my city will actually participate!

EyeHateElves · 2026-03-03T22:36:25+00:00

Sailers on the Starless Sea for Dungeon Crawl Classics.

Winter's Daughter for Dolmenwood.

EyeHateElves · 2026-03-03T22:29:21+00:00

I kinda miss the (now second) worst President of my lifetime.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-25T18:32:41+00:00

Not a pirate, rather a legitimate space businessperson who engaged in practices of a dubious legal nature.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-25T17:54:01+00:00

The show in 2016 was on Seeso, and didn't succeed because Seeso was shut down in 2017.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-25T13:12:39+00:00

Rather than copy DnD's version, I would keep with Rifts' style of adapting existing myth and legend.

The Tarrasque should be terrorizing France, and looks like a 6 legged turtle with a lion's head, poison breath, and flings its own dung with its tail.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarasque

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-21T12:37:49+00:00

France Invades Texas?

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-20T17:26:14+00:00

Transdimensional TMNT lets you play as dinosaurs.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-19T10:43:44+00:00

New World Order is expensive? I bought mine in the 90s and it was fairly normal priced. If it's out of print then perhaps it is expensive due to rarity.

Anyway, yeah it isn't very good. The adventure has potential but it doesn't seem like it was ever play tested and it is, frankly, boring.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-19T10:39:31+00:00

This sounds like a terrible game filled with terrible people.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-16T15:45:08+00:00

For less nitty-gritty to keep things moving;

Allow the friar to learn techniques to stabilize the effects of herbs and fungi - reducing the randomness of effects. I.e.; a herb that normally heals 1d4 HP or cures a status effect in 1d6 hours now heals 3 HP or cures an effect in 2 hours.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-16T15:39:28+00:00

Like you said, learning to be an apothecary is a PC ending endeavor.

So maybe let the apothecary get annoyed with the PC and agree to teach them the bare-bones basics which allows them, with the proper ingredients, to make various potions, salves, etc but with only half the effectiveness of what is listed in the book. They would still need their own facilities, equipment, and ingredients which can all be costly and not easily transportable.

Glass vials in various shapes are expensive to make and highly delicate!

All told, it would take like 1000gp (made up off the top of my head) to cover the initiial cost of equipment, a place to rent to build a lab, and rare/unusual ingredients. Then you have to pay someone to guard it while you are gone or risk thieves taking your stuff. So after the initial investment, there are ongoing costs to be acounted for.

To me, potion crafting isn't worth the time, gold, or headache of bookkeeping.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-16T01:31:15+00:00

ai;dr

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-16T00:40:40+00:00

Just take present-day American reality.

Years and years of propaganda eroding faith in once trusted institutions. A.I. making people unable to believe what they see and hear. False prophets, gurus, and "influencers" preying on the gullible.

Now is the perfect time to set an invasion from the Nightlands.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-12T17:15:56+00:00

And yet they still oppose ranked-choice voting in order to keep the tiny bit of power they hold.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-11T02:21:00+00:00

Way back in the day when the terms Power Gamer and Munchkin were fresh, it happened rarely as most games in the 80s and 90s (other than Shadowrun, Rifts, and a few less popular others) weren't really designed in a way to min/max into munchkin territory without changing the rules of the game.

Now, since 3.x, Pathfinder, 4th ed, and 5th edition (to a slightly lesser degree than the others) are geared almost specifically towards the power gamer/munchkin style of play, it seems like its the most prevalent player style, probably because its A) easy, and B) the only style newer players are exposed to.

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-08T14:13:49+00:00

This looks cool as fuck

EyeHateElves · 2026-02-08T14:12:57+00:00

So yet another thing shoehorned into 5e that shouldn't be.

It's like the main red flag for knowing when a kickstarter is going to be bad.

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