Still in reaction to Indigo.

Because it was requested after I mentioned that I kept every draft and variation of the eternal knot diagram, well, here they are.

( Follows: A whole whackload of image files. )

Holy mother of sin.

We finished the second arc of eyebeams' anarchist space game tonight. He explains it quite well now that the shell-shock has worn off.

I only have one thing to say about that session.

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Indigo is set on a Dyson sphere with a radius of 1 AU. I was curious if the Commonwealth having explored approximately 2000 tectons (earth-sized landmasses) was high or low.

The surface area of a sphere is 4πr2. An AU is 1.495e9 km. That means that the Dyson sphere has a surface area of 2.8e17 km2. Earth has a surface area of 5.1e8 km2. That ( Read more... )

So, I've been thinking about the ghostly superheroes concept again. That concept, in brief, is that people who die in extraordinary circumstances gain powers in the afterlife. So, Peter Parker gets bitten by a radioactive spider and dies, waking up to find that he is a monstrous half-man / half-spider creature.
Setting: Well, it ( Read more... )

So I spent a little bit tossing dice pool data into a spreadsheet (available in Openoffice.org ODT and Excel XLS formats). ( Read more... )

After realising that it was a relatively simple tweak, I added a second page to the calculator: contested rolls. So let's look at a few scenarios:

(NB: I may have the systems wrong for our game. eyebeams, please tell me if I do, and I'll re-calculate ( Read more... )

Mostly for eyebeams' and magicbox' perusal, I've set up a re-creation of my white wolf dice pool calculator. It rolls a given pool 20 000 times and displays the results (margin of error approximately 0.5%). It supports various rules tweaks, but the defaults are what we're using for Adventure ( Read more... )