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From some of the rhetoric, that would have been less suprising.

hyzmarca wrote: I've just been wondering how close one can make the parallels before your players take a step back, look at your campaign critically, and ask "are we Nazis?"

My experience with Warhammer 40K players would suggest really, really close.

So when you're outnumbered it does start taking up actions, which isn't unprecedented, other games have 'full defence' actions. However one of the ways the convoluted nature comes to a head and becomes are real problem is that, with what's been presented thus far, combats turn into ridiculous stalem...

Shut up both of you. GnomeWorks is talking about delaying your next action as if it's a different thing than using up an action, but it definitely isn't. Those are the same fucking thing. GnomeWorks is just splitting hairs about tick costs. -Username17 Except that the delay is trivial, it takes 6 t...

The only thing I can think of that might count is gold.

Yeah, you are an idiot, because the mechanic GnomeWorks actually fucking described is that you have to give up your action for the turn... Reactions do not take up your action on your next turn, they just delay it. So the 'mechanic GnomeWorks actually fucking described' is what I thought, and you '...

Never been interested enough to read it in any detail (I'm told the system is pretty awful) but the premise of Dog Town is that you're are a criminal and have 90 days to raise $100,000 to get in on a deal that will set you up for life. Only 2 of the 9 neighbourhoods got a source book but they have w...

What are you talking about here? I was under the impression that back in 2012 sometime PostHuman shut down and put everything online for free (as that is what I was told by the person who sent me the links to download it) and that the kickstarter represented a reopening/rerelease. I didn't realise ...

When attacked, a character has the option to parry (if wielding a weapon), block (if wielding a shield), or dodge (no caveat, but takes more time). All those defensive actions can be taken in response to being attacked. Is there some other definition of reaction I'm not aware of? Possibly, I am an ...

If you had actually paid attention to the context of my post, like the post my quoted text is from, or even just the stuff I had in quotes and what else I said then working from the clues available, you would know your argument here is not actually relevant to what I said. In the part you quoted it...

Thirdly, it is blankly ridiculous to say that blocking and dodging can't be an unconscious reaction. Anyone who has been to a modern high school can tell you when someone starts to take a swing at you you'll flinch or put your hands up, that's your body instinctively moving to defend itself without...

It's very explicitly Call of Cthulhu meets Paranoia in space. This single line has me more interested in Eclipse Phase than anything else I've read about it. I am simple folk. Question: Is the version of the game that got dumped online for free, ages ago when they thought they were going out of bus...

Unfortunately, no. A majority of everyone everywhere wants schools to "teach the controversy" about creationism. Seriously. There are no countries on Earth where even a slim majority supports not teaching creationism. Sad, but true. That doesn't sound right. Firstly, my gut reaction is th...

Point is, if you went farther in that direction and made it explicitly clear that just because something can be done with A is not a valid reason to prohibit it being done with B, would that mitigate the problem? It wouldn't solve it entirely, of course, but it seems that'd put a lot more of the po...

tussock wrote:Copyright is forever and you can't lose it.

I thought copyright was limited to author's death plus some ammount of years or some ammount of time after publication?

L5R is a great game, but it's badly managed to a point where I'd be hard pressed to actually recommend people getting into it. But as they say "This edition will be better!", if they manage nothing else but avoiding power promos, I'll be happy. On Shiro Usagi, no idea what's going on there...