Thank you for building this! My partner is due in next two weeks, so this is perfect timing for us. I’ve been using the Android version and the interface feels very straightforward and easy to use. I’ve only run into two issues so far:
To me, a pan for a lazy cook means easy to clean, and you don’t need to worry about what you cook in it. I wouldn’t care about what types of utensils you need, because a true lazy person would simply throw out all of ones you can’t use.
With that in mind, I think an oven-safe ceramic nonstick pan is your best bet. The nonstick is great for both cooking and cleanup, and unlike a cast iron you don’t need to worry about acidic foods or reseasoning. If all you own are silicone utensils, the only downside is that you can’t crank the heat up too much. And even then, all that does shorten the lifespan of its nonstick properties, at which point you’re no worse off than a steel pan.
Beyond the Bestiary books, I’ve been using Mimic Fight Club to build encounters: https://mimic-fight-club.github.io/ It’s really great for scaling encounters to the party size and level, and it’s useful even if you are just searching and filtering.
I have noticed a lack of normal humanoid enemies though. There have been a lot of battles against Kobold Scouts reskinned as “bandits”.
For treasure, I refer to the Treasure By Level chart (11-1) on page 536 and the Party Treasure By Level chart (10-9) on 509. I try to find something appropriate for the area the treasure would be in, failing that, I start looking at spells to use for scrolls or wands. I tend to use the 10-9 chart as a minimum baseline and add more on top of that, but my group tends to forget the items they have, so your mileage may vary.
I agree. Even when the megathread included a list of posts relevant to a topic, whatever nuance was there gets lost in the grand comment thread. We really need a tagging and filtering system so that users can opt out of topics.
That way, it’s not incumbent on mods to make a Megathread, or make a judgement call on whether there are too many posts on any one topic.
Hey! This is a really cool idea. The Matrix universe has a lot of unique themes that set it apart from most game systems, and even other cyberpunk settings. Could you give us a better idea of what your design goals for this are? That will make it a lot easier to evaluate rules you are writing, and determine whether they get you closer to your goals.
For example, what moments from the movies would you like to be possible in your system, that can’t be done currently in D&D?
I really like this system as well. It also makes more narrative sense, in that, you “learn from experience”, and you learn more when things don’t go exactly how you expected them. It does seem odd at first that players are essentially rewarded for failing, but the fact they’ve put themselves in a position where failure is possible means they can’t just rest in their laurels (or seek out numerous easy challenges to “grind” xp).
Just existing as a first time parent. I have a huge amount of respect for anyone that has two or more children, because one is already stretching me to my limits. To get anything accomplished requires stealing time from something else. So over time, everything is in a state of being half-assed, overdue, or forgotten.