Solomoriah wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 09, 2018 9:20 pm

For the record, I hate dashes of all types. I'm often amazed that the people who tell me that two spaces after final punctuation is "wrong" because it's "ugly" still use dashes... I find them VERY ugly.

what-,-do-you-have-hyphen-phobia-or something? And-calling-them-ugly...---So-much-hate!

Thanks! I wasn't really sure where to put it so I put it in the Rules Supplements section.

https://www.basicfantasy.org/showcase.cgi?sid=174

Okay, I've made a 5th release of my little supplement. It probably will only interest GMs but maybe there is enough there finally to earn it a spot in the Showcase?

When I ran it for my students, I started them with "Kidnapped!". It was a case of Mistaken Identity. The baddies thought they had captured a high level group initially, then didn't really know what to do with them after capture. Then, when the group got to the town, people also mistook them for the ...

Having a little experience with how PbtA works, I have to say you either need to go "whole hog" with it or not at all. the bonds thing is nice and works well in PbtA, but only because the central mechanic is based on character interaction. Trying to mix elements of the two, in my opinion is like try...

Listening to: The Doubleclicks
Reading: the Kris Longknife series
playing: Re-playing Might and Magic 6

The glass rod idea is a pretty good one. The reason i suggested a leyden jar is because it is a very primitive capacitor. So primitive that there is some evidence that a version of it existed in Mesopotamia. Anyway, what better way to contain a lightning elemental than with a capacitor? Although a g...

Hey everyone, my students and I have been working on a Basic Fantasy Character app for the Android. (There's a thread in the Workshop) We would like to make an equipment page where the player can easily equip or unequip items. Most likely in a scrollable list of some kind where clicking an entry wou...

Nothing to see here:

Just your average Treant out for his morning walk with his pet Timber-wolf, "Scruffles".

Cold - Cube of ice that magically never melts.
Lightning - a Lightning Jar! Or a Leyden Jar for those of you who know nothing of canning.
Metal - how about a small crucible?
Wood - a wooden whistle or flute