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- Thu Apr 25, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: RPG thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2484
Re: RPG thread
I like to call D&D "the MS Windows among the RPGs" - it is the market leader, and its design is inferior to many other RPGs as its advanced functionalities were added later to a primitive core and still don't work well.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:44 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027417
Re: Venting thread
I even seem to remember reading somewhere that D&D was initially marketed as a "wargame" and only latter called a "role-playing game". This is quite true: it started out as a table-top wargame, and the role-playing bits were shoehorned in later. I've replied to this where it...
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 4:43 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: RPG thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2484
Re: RPG thread
Redirecting this discussion from the Venting Thread... I even seem to remember reading somewhere that D&D was initially marketed as a "wargame" and only latter called a "role-playing game". This is quite true: it started out as a table-top wargame, and the role-playing bits w...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 12:57 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027417
Re: Venting thread
Just that. RPG combat is boring, and I don't like stories where problems are solved with violence. Another way of putting this is that to most RPG aficionados, combat is about as central to roleplaying as scoring goals is to soccer. Trying to con my brother into doing an adventure with a bit more s...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 2:44 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027417
Re: Venting thread
I'd like to play tabletop role-playing games with some friends, and went to a RPG convention last weekend to meet some, but my experience there just confirmed what I have been feeling for long: most people who claim to play role-playing games really just play skirmish wargames, either abusing role-...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 10:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Venting thread
- Replies: 1920
- Views: 15027417
Re: Venting thread
I'd like to play tabletop role-playing games with some friends, and went to a RPG convention last weekend to meet some, but my experience there just confirmed what I have been feeling for long: most people who claim to play role-playing games really just play skirmish wargames, either abusing role-p...
Re: Caizu
I have always wondered whether Caizu is inspired by Czech - it juts into Verdurian-speaking territory in a way very similar to how Czech juts into German-speaking territory in our world.
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 385460
Re: What have you accomplished today?
I know that feeling very well - my own worldbuilding and conlanging notes are in a similar state of disarray. It may be comfort for you to know that the greatest conlanger and worldbuilder of the 20th century, J. R. R. Tolkien, wasn't any different (except of course that he had no digital devices, a...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:55 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: What are the phonotactics rules for Classical Latin?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 842
Re: What are the phonotactics rules for Classical Latin?
While one cannot say that some languages are "too complex" or "too simple", I do find the middle attractive, and Latin is just right for me.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: The New ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 317
- Views: 339226
Re: The New ZBB Quote Thread
Nort, are you deliberately trying to summon Cthulhu? T'kwga th'Khiw, tuwthow, yw'h m'yighyigh cticth tati quglqugl nh'tayw'h ti. Cticth tati ghn'gon tayw'h. Pa n'afh cticth fh'glak ti, wge ne'h, nh'mmtefw'nyuih, tom nh'mmtefw'nyuih on fifyh, nh'foy m'tefw'nyuih pa p'nenh, nh'qogl. Nh'qogl f'togh ta...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 4:52 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 894
- Views: 1082771
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
Thank you for sharing. This is a valid objection; but the author knocks at an open door when he points out that the *s > h shift did not happen in Continental Celtic - I don't think it has anything to do with Celtic. Well, it being Celtic was the original idea behind it being a substrate word for &...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 8:00 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 933
Re: Do you think it will ever be possible to go back in time?
I think there is a reason to assume that backwards time travel is impossible: Where are the visitors from the future? Of course, some people opine that UFOs are just that, but one would then rather expect that UFOs appear especially frequently near important historical events, which is not what we o...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 7:54 am
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 894
- Views: 1082771
Re: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
though even here, there are cases where an element in some place names correlate with a salient feature of the named sites, such as *hal- in the names of some ancient Central European salt production sites which therefore probably meant 'salt' in whichever language it came from. Actually, no seriou...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Languages
- Topic: The Great Proto-Indo-European Thread's Sequel
- Replies: 894
- Views: 1082771
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 8:10 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: What have you accomplished today?
- Replies: 780
- Views: 385460
Re: What have you accomplished today?
Good! I've always loved conlang families.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:27 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: RPG thread
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2484
Re: RPG thread
I am currently working on a universal RPG system called OURS . Of course, we have GURPS, which has been my favourite RPG system for many years, and OURS owes quite something to it, but I found some things I could improve and simplify, and moreover, I wanted something that could be included freely in...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 7:31 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Linguistic and cultural situation after the Norse conquest of England
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1953
Re: Linguistic and cultural situation after the Norse conquest of England
We do actually have a North Germanic conlang with Old English influence - check out the Conlang Fluency Thread. Yes - Yorkish. Has anyone done something the other way around i.e. Old English with substantial Old Norse influence? Would be nice to see such a conlang! English as we know it already has...
- Sat Apr 13, 2024 6:25 am
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: Linguistic and cultural situation after the Norse conquest of England
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1953
Re: Linguistic and cultural situation after the Norse conquest of England
Short answer: Nobody knows, as usual with such alternative histories. Longer answer: This may result in Old English gradually being replaced by a North Germanic language with a strong Old English substratum influence, which manifests in a large number of loanwords from Old English, perhaps including...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: Ephemera
- Topic: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1633
Re: 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
I travelled to southern Germany for the 1999 eclipse. I stayed with an uncle of mine who lived in the totality strip, but unfortunately the weather did not play ball - it was heavily clouded and raining. Later, I witnessed a partial eclipse where I observed what Travis B. has described. It was bizar...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: Conlangery
- Topic: The problem of "finding the right word"?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2924
Re: The problem of "finding the right word"?
I know this all too well, which is a reason why I prefer doing a posteriori conlangs. Of course, the a-posteriori-ness has to make sense within the fictional setting: a language of Bronze Age Britain, for instance, may be (indeed, is IMHO likely to be) Indo-European, but an exolang is not.