Quote from: thedungeondelver;492990We had a Keeper who let us put a french 75mm field howitzer on the back of a flatbed truck - two of the group aced their engineering rolls (I think that was the skill; I don't have a rulebook handy) so there was no "gun tears itself loose of your ad-hoc mounting, impales the driver, explodes the rest of the ammo" type stuff going on, but it was very much an infrequently used weapon.

Quote from: daniel_ream;492559Permit me to clarify: the problem is that nearly all RPGs are essentially tactical wargames with a tacked on skill system.  RPGs that provide a mechanical framework for any activity other than personal combat with the same level of detail are vanishingly few.

Quote from: GameDaddy;492994Oh please... There was Runequest, The Fantasy Trip, Tunnels & Trolls, and Chivalry & Sorcery from very early on... These were all level-based skills games with combat tacked into the skills system. Elegant (Except for C&S, which was totally for math nerds), and easy to play, our gaming group adopted these as alternatives to AD&D, and we actually played more skills based roleplaying games than regular D&D.

Quote from: Aos;492979He's fighting canard with canard.

Quote from: Akrasia;493079The best way to defeat a canard is with a full-blown urban legend.  Simply using another canard will just lead to a stand off...

Quote from: Aos;493091Only welfare mothers enjoy 4e.

Quote from: daniel_ream;492976God's Teeth, it's 2011.  Do I really have to put "IMHO" in front of every sentence?

I'm not even going to touch the whole "melee combat is precious and special and so much more important than anything else that could ever happen in an adventure game, so of course it has to take up 75% of the rulebook" thing.  I'm tired of buckshotting that canard.

Quote from: RPGPundit;492848There is such a game: Escape from Innsmouth.  I own it, and it plays pretty fun. One player is the human, the other 1-3 players are the deep ones trying to kill the human before he can round up his captured friends and escape from the city.

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Quote from: Aos;493124Not to mention that on a site where opinion is very often presented as fact, it's probably not a bad idea to make it clear that you know the difference.

Quote from: Planet Algol;492993The great thing about a howitzer is that it's not a weapon that impales...

Quote from: Planet Algol;492988After jacking firearms and kung fu I like to dump skill % into Credit Rating. There's three reasons for this:

a) It can translate into starting $$$ and income. More money = more juice; you can solve a lot of problems by throwing money at it. My higher level AD&D PCs are generally broke, despite the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of experience gold pieces due to my fondness for the aforementioned tactic.

b) I've owned a lot of CoC scenarios and campaigns, and my impression is that Credit Rating was one of the more common social skills referenced to in the text. And yeah, having a high credit rating allows my PC has turned out useful for investigation tactics such as getting information by pretending to be interested in buying real estate or starting a business. Enjoying the benefits to being one of the 1% - actually both kinds of 1% (being oligarch and also, due to the violent, illegal lifestyle of the PC, being a outlaw despite any facade of respectability).

c) I absolutely love pumping an NPC for information in their office by making an appointment with them, and when in their office and in the act of sitting down reaching into the back pocket and saying "Excuse me but this dang wallet of mine is so big it's uncomfortable to sit on" while slapping his brick of a wallet, stuffed with cash, on the desk.

Quote from: Blackhand;493316No matter what.

Kung Fu is applicable against any monster, anywhere and anytime.

This is the immutable law of all universes.

Quote from: Blackhand;492233Check out stories by August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and especially Brian Lumley.