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- Wed Oct 02, 2019 12:12 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing Powered by the Apocalypse
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4182
Which PBTA games are supposed to be good? I'm reasonably confident that Apocalypse World and Dungeon World each see more play individually than the rest combined, so if we're tossing out those two we're left stranded deep in the fucking woods of game design. But why not, let's indulge the train of ...
- Wed Oct 02, 2019 4:59 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing Powered by the Apocalypse
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4182
Which parts do you think are worth scavenging, and which games do it better? Earlier PBTA games were basically to forum-based play-by-post games what modern synthpop and cloud rap is to the music of the 80s. In PBTA's desire to break the mold of RPGs, they ended up creating something that pretty mu...
- Tue Oct 01, 2019 2:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Fixing Powered by the Apocalypse
- Replies: 19
- Views: 4182
Not salvageable, only embraceable. If you try to sideline the quantum bears aspect instead of getting rid of it entirely, you end up with things like Pathfinder 2's skill system, where you spend half an hour optimizing your craft check modifier and then the DM spends five seconds deciding what your...
- Mon Aug 19, 2019 5:46 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Gumshoe seems like it blows
- Replies: 75
- Views: 13638
It is explicitly intended, by word of the rulebook itself, to skip directly to the challenge of putting clues together. It couldn't care less about anything outside of this insanely myopic focus, so yes, it's a bad mystery game. Really, you will find that almost every RPG product that outsells most ...
- Wed Aug 14, 2019 3:42 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Pathfinder 2e
- Replies: 666
- Views: 149701
- Sat Jul 27, 2019 2:22 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: The Failure of Modern RPG Design
- Replies: 26
- Views: 6013
- Wed Jul 03, 2019 8:08 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Broken games?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 2952
Well if we're going to operate under the broad assumption that any game which fails to live up to it's core premise is broken, literally every RPG I have ever encountered is broken. As far as the most obviously broken games I've encountered go: Pokemon Tabletop Adventures has literally no balance in...
- Sun Jul 09, 2017 7:18 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Failure Points of 3.5
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8058
- Sun Jul 09, 2017 1:51 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Failure Points of 3.5
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8058
- Fri Jul 07, 2017 9:26 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Failure Points of 3.5
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8058
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 7:48 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Not So Old Not So Shame - I Disclose My CGL Credits
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7696
Random lurker here, but I'd like to thank you for your work on Splintered State. When I started looking into Shadowrun, (before I realized that 5e is an unsalvageable system) I was looking for guidance. Many of the adventures, including ones that were written for older editions, seemed to paint a pi...