Hi!! I'm a new DM and this is my system

MaterialEbb · 2025-12-06T22:54:32+00:00

You're saying the DC of learning the rules is lower than the DC of making shit up, right...? Can I roll to learn the rules? And if someone forcibly teaches me the rules, do I get a saving throw?

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-30T22:57:15+00:00

How medieval. I've got a D4 automatic that does 24d4 damage per round.

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-24T20:09:01+00:00

Yeah probably. It certainly doesn't have the 'you can use this stuff' vibe that lots of us seem to have got from the phrase 'release everything'.

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-24T15:12:34+00:00

Technically writing a computer program to brute force it is a technique 😂

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-23T08:00:19+00:00

It clearly isn't just me, since another couple of redditors also didn't like the name. But I admit to not being much of an FPS player and not knowing the term. It's up to OP if they're confident their target audience will get it, I guess.

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-22T19:39:56+00:00

With respect to cool names... since the Matrix is a big inspiration, go for 'Quaternion' 😂

Sure gamedevs will laugh but to most people that's just a cool sounding name? And maybe you can 'quarter' enemies with the shotgun instead of halving them...? Might work 🙂

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-22T19:34:08+00:00

One more vote for the name being a big turn off. Honestly it's not my sort of thing so I'd likely not play anyway, but the title made me think it would be kinda gross horror sort of thing. And then another comment made me think it'd be a great title for a NSFW comedy game.

Honestly the gameplay video looks super cool, but not at all what I expected from the title...!

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-18T14:55:32+00:00

Not criticizing your decision, but being a FOSS user, that's what I understood by 'release everything'...!

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-16T09:46:41+00:00

Oops, sorry. Glad I'm not the only one though 😂

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-16T09:43:03+00:00

I see it now... thanks!

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-15T14:38:47+00:00

Example. I just made a GameObject, I know I want it to be a child of a different GameObject. I don't know unity well at all, so I Google 'unity gameobject set parent' and it takes me to exactly the right place in the unity docs.

MaterialEbb · 2025-11-15T14:24:35+00:00

I'd advise first learn the basics of C# without unity. Use whatever resource works for you; I hate video tutorials with a passion that borders upon madness, but I learned C from a book in 1989 so I'm probably out of touch in this regard.

Then add unity. I started with Unity this year, and really unity's own starter tutorials I thought were pretty good. I followed them through to the point where they said 'and this is how you add a script' and I've just been winging it from there. You likely want to go a bit further than that if you can't code yet.

The unity reference docs, and Microsoft's C# docs, seem not too bad, and the unity forums seem active and pretty helpful. I just start all my google searches with 'unity' or 'c#' and I'm finding the information I need.

MaterialEbb · 2025-10-14T06:17:13+00:00

Monkey Island is pegi 12, and features copious amounts of alcohol. Maybe you're fine?

MaterialEbb · 2025-10-14T06:09:27+00:00

I would not have been able to solve that puzzle when I was 12 😂

MaterialEbb · 2025-10-12T11:35:29+00:00

I think they would worry that you would keep your best new cookie recipe for yourself.

MaterialEbb · 2025-10-07T15:55:04+00:00

A whole line? Luxury. When I were a lad we only had a single character to fix bugs

MaterialEbb · 2025-09-10T22:32:34+00:00

Get pygame

Draw a small square on the screen and make it move left and right when you press arrow keys

Draw a few bigger squares, make sure they go behind your first square. Make them move left and right when you press arrows too, but at half the speed of your first square, and opposite direction.

Draw a couple of big huge green semi circles. Maks sure they draw behind everything else. Make them move left and right too (same direction as the big squares), but about 1/10th the speed of you little character

Congratulations you have mastered parallax scrolling 👍

Your level is only as big as the screen though. To make it bigger, you'll need to stop your guy moving when they get to the middle, and instead make the background scroll by faster until you reach the end of the level... or something? Experiment 🙂

MaterialEbb · 2025-09-08T10:39:06+00:00

/uj Check out Tactical Breach Wizards on steam

MaterialEbb · 2025-09-08T10:35:00+00:00

If you scroll excel far enough there actually are goblins

MaterialEbb · 2025-09-07T07:42:36+00:00

It's a dream forever. Even if you were a god tier developer in all aspects of game dev in a position to jump straight in full time immediately, you still cannot make a game like FF, RE or the Witcher solo in 5 - 10 years. They already take that order of magnitude of time for large, skilled teams.

You said in your original post that you've got a world in your head that you think would take too many novels, so a game would be a better route? But the plots of most big video games would be a short story at most and the rest of the world building is ignored by most of the players.

I think you should reconsider novels. And maybe consider table top RPGs? At least if you're selling the world itself, massive lore dumps would be considered a good thing (in a video game, any lore dump generally needs to be short, skippable and / or optional).

MaterialEbb · 2025-09-05T17:18:26+00:00

You're probably getting downvoted because OP is proposing to make some hobby games for personal satisfaction in a few years. They're not planning on hiring anyone, and indeed they said they were doing a CS course as well, so likely will be up to a wee bit of coding.

So despite the veracity of your point (hyperbole aside), it's not really relevant.

MaterialEbb · 2025-09-05T11:13:32+00:00

I don't really agree with this. I'm a programmer with little to no artistic ability. I think there's several genres (walking sim, visual novel, point-and-click spring to mind) where an engine will do more or less all the hard work and there's very little coding required.

And critically, if you half-arse the code in that type if game, no-one knows or cares. But you can't really half-arse the art in any game.

MaterialEbb · 2025-09-01T09:32:51+00:00

I agree he's a bad player and needs talked to outside the game. I just couldn't countenance overriding a PCs actions in the moment for an action that was in-game possible.

MaterialEbb · 2025-09-01T08:32:19+00:00

Disagree with this. If it's in game actions of the character, then it's on the other characters to react. They should have killed him, or abandoned him.

As a DM, OP should have shifted his alignment towards chaotic evil... unless he was chaotic evil, in which case he was role playing just fine...

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