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Suppose that one has an assortment of balls situated on a flat surface. You desire to have the balls arranged in a small circle, somewhere on the surface. There are several ways to coerce your spherical subjects to your goal. One might push each ball to the circle, one at a time, until they...

Inquisitor is correct, in that dice can be tricky little beasts. It's very possible to master them, but you don't start out taming tigers if you're terrified by a tabby cat. I have always promoted the Fate system as being a good intermediate, and I will do so now. It's designed to be light and...

I should like to add that it is up to the discretion of the DM how frequently dice are rolled. There are no explicit mandates that dice must be rolled at every turn. That being said, there are times when dice are used outside of combat. Generally the rolls are saved for important things: do you...

Some brief research reveals that Bravely Default is a TBS game in the vein of Final Fantasy with jobs and whatnot. I would advise you shy away for trying to accurately reproduce the whole battle system. It's fairly complicated to transpose that sort of thing even with a solid grasp of the...

You might also remember the golden rule of this sort of thing: No plot, no matter how extensive and well-considered, will fully survive an encounter with your players. Prepare to dance.

There's an awful lot to 'complex' and 'simple.' You might want to define each more specifically to direct the discussion better. For example, folks could have a very in-depth discussion about the level of detail in combat mechanics Interesting to some, but not to the folks who just want to talk...

Jay has a point. Please keep all unnecessary dice rolling to a minimum :D

Throughout his early life, the character should have some sort of pure, untouched ideal that keeps him moving. Some kind of hope for justice, personal glory, honor, etc. Through the entirety of his suffering, this one thing keeps him going, in the hopes that he should at last finally find some...

MSPaint is so classic, I loved that stuff. I'd either go with a rough raster approach or get all fancy with vectors for a more polished looking map. Raster for accuracy, vector for polish; Inkscape for the vector stuff. Creepin' yer devArt Uziel :3

I used Photoshop for this one. Traced out the general shape of the landmass and then just sort of made up how it looks. Pencil tool, a few layers for some stuff, and a lot of hard work :3

Here's my interpretation of a map. Used a section of the Amaranth map as a guide, see if you can guess which! This was really just a quick mockup so I've left out water systems and any geopolitical markings you'd normally see. Height-based color scheme.

I agree, when the scope gets big it's nice to have a map. Although, I've found that even in small locations, maps are sometimes really necessary when the scenario is location critical. It really depends on how important location is, for things like combat. Although whenever I make a map, they...