u/Ghengis56

Fun fact, it never even occurred to me that romancing all the women in waterlilies would have repercussions until right now.

I've been wanting to play Oblivion again recently but I'm not sure whether to play the original or the remaster. I went online to look for modding guides for Oblivion and most of them just showed off graphical enhancements that may be think I might as well just play the remaster. Is there enough interesting stuff, as in new quests, map expansions and things to do other than just making the game look prettier that would make it worthwhile to mod the original rather than play the remaster?

I just reinstalled fallout 3 and was about to start modding it when I realized that I should probably ask this question first. Is there really any reason to mod fo3 on its own or am I just better of doing tale of two wastelands? Does fo3 have any specific mods that make it worth it by itself?

I know that this might not be an easy question to help with but I thought I'd ask, I'm creating a TTRPG (tabletop role playing game think like dungeons and Dragons) that is set in a fictional archipelago. I've been basing each of the islands in this archipelago loosely off of different real world mythologies and I wanted one of them to take inspiration from Papua. I'm looking for help naming this fictional Island, does anyone have any suggestions?

The people over on the Sri Lanka subreddit were very helpful for the island that I was basing off of there so I thought I'd ask here.

I'm looking to set up a play by post game and was looking for feedback.

Asheville, North Carolina.

An arty city in the southern Appalachian mountains famous for its preserved art deco architecture.

Dubrovnik, Croatia.

A perfectly preserved medieval walled city on the stunningly beautiful Dalmatian coast.

Bucharest, Romania.

The capital of Romania founded by the a Vlad Dracula/the Impaler, it was known as the Paris of the east and was one of the first electrified cities.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The capital of Ethiopia founded by Menelik II, it has been known as the political heart of Africa due to its ties the rest of the continent and is one of the fastest growing cities in the world.

Yerevan, Armenia.

The capital of Armenia it is one of the oldest cities in the world and has long been on the periphery of major empires passing between ancient mesopotamian kings, Eranshahr, Rome and Russia.

Vilnius, Lithuania.

One of the most important cities in all of European history it is a center of culture for pagan revivalists as well as once being the center of Europe Jews before the second world war. It has been both referred to as the Babylon of Eastern Europe and the Jerusalem of Europe Jewish significant cultural and political importance.

If you have any other suggestions for interesting cities you'd like to see in a game I feel free to suggest them. I wanted to go with non obvious choices, cities that you don't often see getting right ups in vtm books but with fascinating histories.

I'd really like to play but all the invite links to the Discord say they have expired. So does anyone have an active link to join the game?

Or any other Play by Post game recommendations?

So the Idea is that you create your own spells using Gnosis, once you get a point of noses you can rank up one of the spheres of magic you know or learn a news sphere and create for yourself one new spell, so for instance you rank up the sphere of fire so you create a spell that lets you shoot a fireball from your magical fetish, let's say a staff. The problem is how a player gets Gnosis. I want it to be narrative, like the game master awards a player gnosis for doing specific things like finding an ancient grimoire, or staring into a dimensional portal. But I'm worried the battle end up being too wishy washy and some game Masters well end up throwing out gnosis like skittles and you'll end up having the players transform into Eldridge gods real fast, oh it'll be super rare and the magic users won't get any new spells for far too long.

I know that this is kind of vague but I'd really appreciate any advice if you can see what I'm going for here.

Edit: I suppose my ultimate issue is just with pacing. I don't really have a problem with my players becoming super powerful but I really want the Galaxy that I have created to feel like the lovecraftian monstrosities that are going to be hunting them down our real threat and they don't surpass them to quickly.

the other thing I'm worried about is magic being too punishing to use. I'm using a d100 system and by default that comes with PowerPoints you have to spend to cast a spell, you also have to roll to see if you achieve the spell, a simple failure means nothing happens but if you fumble then you roll on a fumble table to see what negative effect happens. is also the narrative element that a lot of people are absolutely terrified of magic in the world, the crew might be on a planet ruled by wizards we're doing magic immediately makes you a member of the upper class, then they warp over to the next system and doing magic in public it gets you burnt at the stake. I want it to be a frightening and punishing universe but I still want the players to want to use magic and I'm afraid of making it TOO hard for them.

So I'm looking to make a character creator with drop down menus, the kind where there is a sentence describing the character and it says let's say their hair colour and you can click on the colour and get a drop-down menu to change it. How would I go about doing that?

All the recipes I looked up said to wait until the skin had gone black so I did, but when I went to peel it it was hard as bark and the flesh had a hard wooden core and wasn't sweet at all. What went wrong?

I'm really interested in joining a play-by-post server but I'm not really sure how to join one, does anyone know where I should go?

I'm creating a game using the d100 system with basic roleplay universal game engine as a guide. The world is entirely my own creation and I was under the impression that because of the orc licence I can use rules and mechanics freely, but I wanted to make sure I understand it correctly before I continue. I'm obviously using the d100 skill check system as well as the passions, sanity, and Allegiance systems. If I am understanding correctly I am free to use those systems in my game provided that everything around them ( world building, artwork, characters) is original, and that I would then be able to publish this work. Is my understanding correct?

It is a gothic, science fantasy setting, taking inspiration from Warhammer 40K, alien, and H.P. lovecraft. I have a pretty clear image of the kind of cover I'd like, a ship flying through a nebula with one of the settings elves standing to one side looking out at the viewer.

They posted an invite yesterday but that link is now useless and everywhere else I have checked it tells me that there is a links are out of date, so how does one actually join this game?

If they have lost Massachusetts which was part of their heartland then they have to be greatly reduced right?

Starfield bought back to face zooming from previous Elder Scrolls games and of course the Oblivion remaster had it, at first people seemed nostalgic for this feature but then I saw people complaining about how much they disliked it and they went and introduced an option to turn it off in starfield. However I've been playing Skyrim again recently and I have to say I actually prefers zooming in to having a distant conversation. How do people feel about this?

I've almost completed my model list but I realized when I was creating my character today that there was a mod I had seen before that added hundreds of short quests all around the map. I'm not sure if I'm misremembering or if I made this up in my mind but I could have sworn that there was a mod which was just lots of additional quests to flesh out the world but I can't for the life of me think what it's name was. Can anyone think of a model like this that I'm forgetting?

I thought I had finally finished my modelist but then I realized that the scars and war paints will really low definition compared to the rest of my character. Do you have any recommendations for replacing the original wall paints with higher definition versions or new wall paints entirely, add anything for scars?

According to the internet this warning comes up when you have too many mods affecting or expanding the world space, what I need to understand is should I be removing mods that add stuff to the overworld, like the more trees mod that I got for falkreath or all the mod that adds lots of stuff underwater, or should I be focusing on big DLC sized quest mods that add new world space like lordbound and beyond the reach? I'd like to keep as many of the big DLC sized world space mods as I can but I'm happy to get rid of some of the smaller older ones, what advice can people give?

I just got a bunch of mods overhauling the armour, mostly replacing the textures on The pre-existing armour with better ones. Now I'm looking for texture replaces for the everyday clothing and wizard robes. What do people recommend?