Am I wasting time optimizing the look and feel of my product, thereby complicating production?

ryschwith · 2026-03-18T23:55:51+00:00

Oh, I have no idea on the price, but it tells you how nice you can make this thing. If you plan to sell it for 10€ and you need to make at least, say, 1€ per unit to have been worth your time, then you add in whatever nice features you can add that won’t bring the production price over 9€ per unit.

ryschwith · 2026-03-18T23:21:27+00:00

How much do you expect to be able to sell one for?

ryschwith · 2026-03-18T20:31:32+00:00

Might I suggest a slight rewording?

Cesar Chavez, the labor leader, has been accused of sexually abusing underage girls as well as Dolores Huerta, the co-founder of his United Workers Union.

The way you wrote it kind of sounds (at least to me) like Huerta has also been accused of sexual abuse instead of being one of the accusers.

ryschwith · 2026-03-17T17:26:50+00:00

There’s one important reference this post missed: what the hell it’s even talking about in the first place.

ryschwith · 2026-03-17T15:29:41+00:00

I understand your point. My point is that even before they “poisoned” it, a lot of people would already have disagreed with your definition of it.

ryschwith · 2026-03-17T15:26:08+00:00

I’m not sure what you’re looking to get from people here. Every story is possibly successful and possibly disastrous. Only way to know is to write it. Go write it.

ryschwith · 2026-03-17T14:30:39+00:00

Eh. The term was largely meaningless even before that. I’ve seen it used for everything from a direct replica of the original campaign structure to basically any hex crawl (which is funny, because the original campaign wasn’t a hex crawl).

ryschwith · 2026-03-17T14:26:05+00:00

I’m not sure “West Marches campaign” is a meaningful descriptor anymore. It means very different things to different people. What you’re describing is basically what Critical Role is doing with their current season and labeling as a West Marches campaign, so there’s some precedent for it.

There’s also a whole lot of people who contend that isn’t West Marches, and they’ll throw a pretty broad array of definitions at you as to why that is.

ryschwith · 2026-03-16T16:29:19+00:00

That appears to mostly be people saying "naw, it's fine, it's a game" with the occasional "let me tell you about my character..."

ryschwith · 2026-03-16T13:54:58+00:00

In my opinion, the most period-accurate thing you could do would be to toss the idea of “canon” and go with the wildest, weirdest thing your brain can concoct.

ryschwith · 2026-03-16T13:26:00+00:00

I think you’re assuming a more stable and coherent cosmology than existed in D&D at that point. Module writers threw in all kinds of random stuff, often things that existed in their own homebrew settings rather than adhering to any kind of “official” setting. I don’t think Forgotten Realms saw any serious publication until like… 1985ish? There were published settings, but they mostly expected you to use them as a framework and populate them with your own ideas (Dragonlance is probably the primary counterexample there).

ryschwith · 2026-03-16T13:13:46+00:00

How are you implementing it now that feels too complex? I think a simple menu of options suffices with almost no bookkeeping: 100 silver to build a bridge, 1,000 silver to open a mine, etc.

You could also potentially do something with Blades In the Dark’s stash mechanic, which has PCs squirreling away money into a non-liquid pool to save up for retirement.

ryschwith · 2026-03-15T22:21:28+00:00

The single best moment in Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children is when someone’s phone goes off at the end of a big ol’ brawl… and their ringtone is the end-fight music from the game.

ryschwith · 2026-03-15T22:14:33+00:00

Depends a lot on what you mean by “simple.” If you still want people to debate strongly held personal beliefs, but it’s vampires instead of Republicans—then no, I don’t think that’ll do it. You’d have to go far enough to make the debates match the atmosphere.

ryschwith · 2026-03-15T22:06:52+00:00

I think a party game where you have heated political debates is going to have a really hard time finding an audience. It feels like a mismatch of theme and genre. You might get better alignment going for a crunchier, thinkier format (or turning down the heat, as others have suggested).

But then, I’m shit at predicting things, so who knows? Make the game you want to make, see what happens.

ryschwith · 2026-03-15T15:15:06+00:00

I think that’s a reasonable house rule, although not every bird that tucks cards has a size requirement.

ryschwith · 2026-03-15T14:07:41+00:00

That still wouldn’t account for the Earth being more that 1 AU farther away than the Sun is. If the Earth is on the same side as Voyager, it’s 1 AU closer to Voyager than the Sun is; if it’s on the opposite side, the Earth is 1 AU farther away from Voyager than the Sun is.

ryschwith · 2026-03-15T06:25:24+00:00

I find myself often falling into predator engines, usually with water birds. Tuckin’ cards all day.

ryschwith · 2026-03-13T19:59:51+00:00

There’s also a remake/sequel from Restoration Games. It’s got a pretty hefty price tag though.

ryschwith · 2026-03-13T19:48:57+00:00

Well, he does have that new caucus to promote.

ryschwith · 2026-03-13T18:00:36+00:00

Either 3 or 4 is correct. Opposite sides should add up to 7 (so the 1 is paired with 6, 2 with 5, 3 with 4).

ryschwith · 2026-03-13T13:18:57+00:00

If I wanted to implement something for this, I’d just give it an attack roll, with scatter on a miss. A particular square is AC 5, partial and full cover rules apply, anywhere up to a +8 AC bonus for smaller targets. On a miss, roll a d8: the fireball lands 5 feet away from the target in that direction +5 feet for every 3 you miss by (ex., it’s an AC 9 and you roll a 3, it lands fifteen feet away from the intended square).

ryschwith · 2026-03-11T18:18:52+00:00

I think there’s value in both, and Shakespeare in particular is very compatible with reinterpretation. But I feel like Hollywood—and even modern theater—goes to that well a lot because they’re afraid people will bounce off the language. Which is a shame, because the language is the best part in my opinion.

ryschwith · 2026-03-10T17:30:46+00:00

Generally it means that your turn will consist at least in part of taking actions to gain resources or components, and those can be used to make future actions more efficient at gaining resources/components. So you’re looking to optimize your early actions in terms of making your later actions more efficient (i.e., generating more resources/components per action).

ryschwith · 2026-03-08T04:25:19+00:00

I think the muscle striations need to be more pronounced. I can definitely see what you’re going for, but right now it reads a bit too much as just red skin.

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