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Can anyone recommend a system that deals with the maximum amount of wealth there is in a town based on its size/population?

EG: You come out of a borderlands dungeon overflowing with items and gems, and you make it back to the nearest hamlet... you can't just sell all that stuff because there's only 30 people there and one store. So, if you want to unload your loot, you need to go to a bigger population center.

That sort of thing.

I see a lot of people saying that Umerica has better classes than MCC, especially the spell-casters.

If this is the case for you, can you explain why?

Also, anything else Umerica does better? Anything that MCC does better?

Cheers

I'm just going back and looking over the character creation rules, and I've noticed that I've missed some stuff.

So, basically the process is this -

1. Roll 3d6 or pick your stats (if you roll, you can also change one to 14... does anyone actually do this? Seems kinda unfair, but it's not a bad thing.)
2. Pick/Roll your Background.
3. Take free Background Skill, then either pick 2 Learn Skills or roll 3 times on both the Growth and Learn lists. (On the example character creation on page 8 it says at the very end of the process you get another free Skill, but I'm not seeing this rule anywhere else?
4. Pick 2 Edges
5. Pick 1 Focus

My questions are thus - Do you choose to boost a low Attribute up to 14 if you roll? Also, where is the rule about this extra free Skill as mentioned in the example of character creation on page 8?

Cheers!

I'm thinking of making a setting that I'm looking to use as base for some S&S shorts, but I want there to be a high level of magic in the world.

The characters I'm following aren't using it, beyond maybe some magic items, but there is a high level of magic in the world itself.

Has anyone seen this sort of thing? Is it an issue with S&S (which I know is typically a low magic genre) and if so, how would you fix it?

Cheers

Edit: Also, fantasy races. Can you have various fantasy races or does it have to be just human for it to remain S&S?

Which kind of Post Apocalyptic Stories do you read the most?

Prepper/Survival Fiction - Going Home, The Borrowed World, Edge of Collapse etc.

SciFi Apoc - Metro 2033, Lucifer’s Hammer, The Stand, etc

Zombie Apocalypse - Anything with zombies in it…

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How do you all handle Trade?

I've got a character who is a merchant and looking to build wealth through wheeling & dealing, but I'm not finding any solid rules for Trading. "Buy low/Sell high" with a decent Trade Skill Check, that sort of thing.

Has anyone here tried using different classes for AWN?

If so, what’d you use and how’d it go?

How would you all run level zero characters through a funnel? How far down the character creation path would you go before sending them off to die one by one?

For those of you who play MCC, do you always have the characters starting out as tribals or do you just go with any kind of gonzo-post apocalyptic origin?

…Tarasque?

What rules do you bring in from other editions of D&D, or from other games entirely, to your 3.5 campaigns?

Akira, Bladerunner (and DADoEC?) are held up as pillars of the Cyberpunk genre, but neither have the internet. Cyberpunk the ttrpg (whichever version you want) has The Net, but it's not like our own internet, and it doesn't really have social media.

With all that in mind, do you think the internet is essential to a cyberpunk setting? If not, what would be required to meet your threshold for the genre?

What do you think the demographics of the USA were in 2077?

I get that it's meant to be the 1950's view of what the future would look like, not the actual 1950's themselves... but what would the people look like?

We know there's enough Chinese Americans there for them to be taken to camps during the Great War, and that there's obviously American and African Americans... but what about everyone else?

Is 2077 in Fallout as multicultural as we expect it to be in our timeline? More? Less?

What're everyone's thoughts here?

What do you think the demographics of the USA were in 2077?

I get that it's meant to be the 1950's view of what the future would look like, not the actual 1950's themselves... but what would the people look like?

We know there's enough Chinese Americans there for them to be taken to camps during the Great War, and that there's obviously American and African Americans... but what about everyone else?

Is 2077 in Fallout as multicultural as we expect it to be in our timeline? More? Less?

What're everyone's thoughts here?

Hey folks,

I'm looking at building a list of indie-published post-apocalyptic stories that people love that aren't about preppers or survivalism.

Think Mad Max, Fallout or Silo.

What have you got?

Does anyone know where I can find more Ghoul stat blocks? Feral Ghoul and Glowing One are a nice start, but I need an entire smorgasbord of Ghouls to ea-I mean kill.