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by quaffeine
Tue Jan 03, 2023 1:54 pm
Forum: Rules Lite RPGs
Topic: Can Microlite games be effective without magic?
Replies: 5
Views: 5901
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Re: Can Microlite games be effective without magic?

Hi! No daft questions here! Or maybe they're just all daft questions, how would we know the difference? :lol: I think it would be arguably easier to adapt Microlite to remove magic, at least compared to a number of other d20-based games (including the Usual Suspects). The basic magic system in m20 (...
by quaffeine
Sun Jan 01, 2023 3:27 pm
Forum: Site and Community
Topic: Microlite20 Facebook Group
Replies: 4
Views: 6388
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Re: Microlite20 Facebook Group

Hi!

Are you referring to a different group than this one?:

Microlite20 Fans

I swear I'd searched Facebook for other groups and found none, but it there is another floating around please let me/us know, I'd love to check it out.

by quaffeine
Sun Dec 25, 2022 11:29 pm
Forum: Rules Lite RPGs
Topic: What Feats have you created for Microlite2020?
Replies: 3
Views: 5405
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Re: What Feats have you created for Microlite2020?

Hi hiveming , have you checked out the Fantasy Expansion? It contains a big list of feats, which are included for the purposes of building classes. But no reason you could use them (or tweak them for use) in established classes. It's available as part of the Collection, or one of the following I thi...
by quaffeine
Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:52 pm
Forum: Rules Lite RPGs
Topic: A Modern Bard (without magic)
Replies: 5
Views: 7081
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Re: A Modern Bard (without magic)

@squirewaldo just came across this on DriveThru, it's for White Star:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/188637/Rock-Star

by quaffeine
Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:10 am
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: m20: Pick-up/One-Off Games, or General Purpose/Campaigns?
Replies: 10
Views: 40444
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Re: m20: Pick-up/One-Off Games, or General Purpose/Campaigns?

Thanks squirewaldo , would have been even more frantic and fun if y'all had just rolled better that first night! It illustrates the point though, I had some basic rules structure already from Crescent City, so all I had to do was come up with the "mini-games" on learning the machines, runn...
by quaffeine
Tue Dec 20, 2022 3:11 pm
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: m20: Pick-up/One-Off Games, or General Purpose/Campaigns?
Replies: 10
Views: 40444
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Re: m20: Pick-up/One-Off Games, or General Purpose/Campaigns?

In my on-going research on this subject, I came across a post (on Reddit, of all places) that really nails what I like about m20. To quote: What makes a good rpg are their dedicated tidbits, the minigames, the "this is what the game is about" rules. Without them, it's just a generic engine...
by quaffeine
Fri Dec 09, 2022 2:13 pm
Forum: Microlite20 for 4e/5e
Topic: Form Fillable Character Sheet
Replies: 1
Views: 6386
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Re: Form Fillable Character Sheet

Nice!

Thanks for the ODT source as well.

by quaffeine
Fri Nov 25, 2022 2:17 pm
Forum: Design and Development
Topic: Any experience with a unified XP/CR/EL system
Replies: 3
Views: 30537
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Re: Any experience with a unified XP/CR/EL system

OK, so this has been a minute. But believe it or not I have been ruminating on this, although it took me some time to try to wrap my head around the math for it. And the result I've come up with is actually really interesting. Note: Again, I'm undertaking this exercise in an attempt to put an m20 ru...
by quaffeine
Tue Oct 11, 2022 4:01 pm
Forum: Rules Lite RPGs
Topic: Referencing rules at the table
Replies: 2
Views: 5921
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Referencing rules at the table

So I've been going down the rabbit hole of at-the-table reference material lately, specifically things like home-made cheatsheets. Given the concise nature of e.g. m20 Purest Essence as well as some of the more expanded rulesets, how does everyone typically look up rules at the table? Page through t...
by quaffeine
Wed Sep 28, 2022 9:56 am
Forum: Rules Lite RPGs
Topic: Should monsters also use hit points to cast spells?
Replies: 4
Views: 11258
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Re: Should monsters also use hit points to cast spells?

I think part of the way m20 Purest Essence offsets this for PCs is by starting them with STR plus 1d6 HP (if memory serves), providing more fuel for casting even from 1st level. So one option is to do the same for NPCs. Both of your suggestions also seem sound, as does perhaps Mana Points or somethi...