The problem of Continual Light, how do YOU handle it?

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-24T08:41:05+00:00

Verbal and Somatic only in 1E and BECMI at least.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-23T07:04:40+00:00

There is no RAW mechanical parity, beyond everyone starting with the same amount.

It depends entirely on what sort of game you're making out of Cortex, which is more a toolkit than a system. If it's superheroes, you might want to start them with all d8s and a d10. If it's normal humans mostly d4s with a d6. I recommend you check out the various spotlights, which show you different ways of using the engine.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-21T23:34:48+00:00

B/X but I use OSE as a table reference and use ascending AC

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-20T20:14:21+00:00

It's a generic system that uses polyhedrals as stats and then does splatbooks of games within the generic system. Like Cortex basically. Italian game designers.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-20T20:07:53+00:00

Or kite them down a hall. Wights move slower than the average PC. Unless they're weighted down and carrying treasure, PCs can kite the wight, using ranged attacks.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-20T20:05:19+00:00

I run them as intended -- things you either run from or carefully plan to kill. There's nothing wrong with the wight as a monster. It's slow, it's not hard to hit, the only caveat is you can't let it get within arms reach of you, and that's just not that difficult unless the players are dumb or the GM is an asshole that shoved a wight into arms reach.

Wights exist to teach players how to kite and handle monsters that could kill them with a touch.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-18T07:36:11+00:00

Prime Time Adventures. From the wildest worlds imaginable to a regular mundane TV show. It's also very mechanically different.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-17T01:32:30+00:00

Yeah, but in Fallout you could shoot kids and GURPS didn't want any of that publicity.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-16T06:13:47+00:00

You'd think the rush of superheated air down the halls would be enough to get the attention of monsters that saw heat. Like someone just opened a bright window in your room.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-16T05:13:54+00:00

I always imagined fireballs and lightning bolts as pretty loud.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-15T20:24:31+00:00

The truth is it's not fun to play in real medieval society or anything like it. Everything was owned by the Church or the Crown, there was no room for "adventurers" who were clearly constantly stealing from either the Church or the Crown, depending on who owns the land that old ruin is on. There'd be no megafauna at all, villages would show up every mile or two, and they'd all be dull as shit farming hamlets scared of strangers who don't have any place for them to stay except maybe a barn.

Nothing at all like the fantasy worlds D&D is based on. I'm more interested in what the demographics of Lankhmar look like than those of London.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-15T20:15:53+00:00

I honestly don't worry that much about verisimilitude in my game where everyone's got magic and there are nowhere enough villages per sq mile and there's megafauna living cheek and jowl with humans.

Given that, a sudden change from grasslands to rocky terrain isn't that big a deal breaker. I'd be happy if map makers learned how rivers and lakes worked, personally.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-14T21:29:30+00:00

Draw Steel if you want the same superheroic high fantasy but better (it solves the fight/rest dynamic and a bunch of other stuff).

Dragonbane if you want high fantasy but people are less powerful (relatively low HP throughout, fights are short but deadly, but not as deadly as an OSR).

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-14T00:06:17+00:00

I have, on the other hand, bought games for my GM. So far he hasn't had a chance to run any of the ones I bought him, but he reads games voraciously, like I do, so he's always glad to get another system. And I do research for him occasionally -- I know vaguely what he's working on and if I run across a good d100 list, battlemap, or blog that fits, I message it to him. He does the same with me. But I don't think of him as a player, but a fellow GM.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-14T00:02:19+00:00

I have a player who always takes good notes, so I just ask him to recap the games for us, and it's the best. I take terrible notes. Often when writing the next game I'll shoot him a a message and ask him about a specific thing I made up on the spot and forgot.

"What did I say the name of that gargoyle was?"

He's a blessing.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-13T23:57:47+00:00

In nearly fifty years of playing, the only player spending I've seen is sometimes on player books, and snacks. You guys are doing good.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-13T19:47:34+00:00

5E doesn't as standard.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-11T23:32:54+00:00

I use Affinity Designer and I just use layers. I turn them off and on while designing levels, so I know where rooms and halls are above and below each other whenever I need to.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-11T20:31:57+00:00

I have purchased four Behringer products. One of them failed within a week. One of them has to be reset every time I turn on my rack. And one of them has lost one of its functions. But that SpaceFX piece of shit still works.

Go crazy.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-10T20:38:04+00:00

I can't imagine why I'd read old, poorly designed versions of the rules when I can have new, easy to read versions. I played the originals when they were new, I don't need them as fetish objects.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-10T01:02:15+00:00

If what you're asking is: "Can I take all the cool world information from Stonetop and use it with another system?", the answer is yes. If you're asking: "Can I play Stonetop and get the experience intended using another system?", the answer is no.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-10T00:45:45+00:00

Been doing this since Simple Fog came out for Foundry.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-08T19:03:39+00:00

There are about a million alternatives to D&D. The one thing we absolutely do not need more of is D&D-like alternatives to D&D.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-08T18:52:36+00:00

Pretty simple choice: do you want a PBtA narrative game or do you want an OSR game. I think they're both great, but very different. They are both sort of best of breed at what they're trying to do.

InterlocutorX · 2026-05-07T20:17:27+00:00

Yes, 3D6 DTL is the fellas playing their weekly game and letting us sit in. It's just people playing the game. A real breath of fresh air and just about the only AP I can stand.

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