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They turn cards sideways and have not-Enchantments and not-Creatures may seem frivolous, but in the complaint there's also Oracle Song and Wild Growth, which seem to fall less under "a differently named mechanic" and more under "that is the same god damn card." It would be nice i...

You know, it's not actually the Oberoni fallacy if you're not excusing the game's faults when you discuss how to fix it.

Shadzar, the Hitler of D&D weapons.

Maybe if you hit 50 pages arguing with Zak this will all suddenly not have been a hilarious waste of time.

Also, gold paint, steel plates, and other similar things cost money and are hard for DTRPG to do on a regular basis. Part of their Kickstarter's money goes to fund proof of concept, dry runs, and leave room for mistakes. DriveThru doesn't handle the prestige editions of books at all. They are made ...

FATE, GURPS and Cortex+ are the only ones keeping that flame burning, but FATE Core seriously tells you to go to TVTropes to learn how to storygame so... Here's the only mention of TVTropes in Fate Core: If you’re inventing a setting, you have more work cut out for you. It’s beyond the scope of thi...

In the exotic land of Storyswine, players will go to the trouble of having their character ensorcelled by an evil wizard all on their own.

It's probably brain damage or something.

It's a failed mechanic anyway; you're never getting to the point you use Carouse. As Frank so wisely taught us, it's just a constant stream of bears no matter what anyone does.

So, You fail on anything except a 10+ Because, on a 7-9 your options are choose 1. So I either choose to not be ensorcelled, charmed, etc, OR I choose to get useful information, in which case I am ensorcelled somehow. Which means that the useful information I got might be bogus, or that I'm now Dra...

Okay, consider me sold. That is terrible. The idea of partial success with complications I'm okay with, but getting fucked even on a total success is bullshit. And getting enslaved from a failed gather information check is ridiculous on anything short of a critical failure. Well, here's the Carouse...

OR it could be a reference to the majority of FATE/FUDGE games, where the established skill list ranges from specific to broad. The Psychic skill has way more applications than the Blades skill, yet the two are frequently given equal value in resource cost. But I'm sure you know and care deeply abo...

While the rest of your post is accurate in the current edition, neither of the statements in this paragraph specifically are true. In FATE Core, there's still a verbal scale, but it's presented alongside a numeric scale and you're asked to use whichever you prefer. Unsurprisingly, I prefer the scal...

The Exigencies are being presented really well but have the problem of being the Steve Exalted. That is, every single one is unique and special because they all come from different gods and gods flavor things different ways. And once we are all Steve, then no one is Steve. Uh, the Dev Chat video sh...

FatR wrote:Paid marketers gotta market, shills gotta use outdated memes to defend their bad game.

Freelance RPG writing pays so well; who wouldn't?

That's kinda offensive. You're dismissing any attempt by the exalted writing team to address LGBT themes or issues that transgendered people face as a marketing gimmick. For some people whatever Exalted actually is or was has long stopped mattering. What's important is hating it, whatever it is. Wh...

I've outlined the extent of my knowledge; I don't know what company OPP uses for traditional printing or the technical details. It might have come up during the V20 or W20 deluxe roll outs

fectin wrote:Instead, they're asking for that price for a perfect bound, print-on-demand piece of crap, sight unseen, on the theory that maybe they'll print some different doodles on the cover?

None of the physical books you get by pledging to the Kickstarter are PoD.

Seerow wrote:You mean the salaries that all just got a +15% boost as a result of the kickstarter

"Salaries"? Hahaha.