Spinner · @Lane
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@sudnadja

We had a thread at Matrix Games, about 15 years ago, while they were porting World in Flames. The topic was spherical projections.

I contributed by covering Fuller's Dymaxion map with hexes at 100 miles (160 km) per hex. It keeps all the land masses intact, no breaks, with minimal distortion, basically a contiguous map of the Earth.

Of course, Fuller would have vehemently opposed using his map for a wargame.

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Last updated 1 year ago

I'd love to play a system that combined the roll-under percentile dice mechanics of with the rich sourcebooks and backdrop of . For solo adventures, I'd use as an oracle:

ludism.org/mgwiki/

I mean, this is kind of what I do anyway, but I'd like it to be integrated. Maybe with ! Do you think can be talked into liberating GURPS?

@ttrpg @Chaosium

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Last updated 2 years ago

I'm not sure why folks are liking my last post, but it occurs to me that if I'm going to play solo, I don't have to be efficient; I can overkill my games as much as I see fit: books, , , bring it on

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Last updated 2 years ago

@avram What do you think about replacing "argument" with "reason"? Short and seems sufficiently neutral for both cooperative and competitive .

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Last updated 2 years ago

@avram That sounds pretty good, but I don't understand why lowest winner wins on d6 and highest on d100. BTW, were developed in a time when rolling lots of dice was not always considered a bad thing.

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Last updated 2 years ago

@avram That's a good point. Let me nose around some more modern and see what they call arguments. Proposals, maybe?

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Last updated 2 years ago

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