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- Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:46 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Player Agency in Masks: A New Generation
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7687
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 8:45 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Player Agency in Masks: A New Generation
- Replies: 35
- Views: 7687
Player Agency in Masks: A New Generation
In the thread about PbtA games in general, I mentioned that I think Masks: A New Generation, the teen superhero game, is substantially superior to other PbtA games, both in general and with regard to player agency specifically. Shinimasu asked what I liked about it and also posted a list of criticis...
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 7:44 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12337
- Tue Apr 16, 2019 5:10 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12337
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 9:01 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lo5R will be a LCG now
- Replies: 217
- Views: 40755
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 5:20 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Cyberpunk Fantasy Heartbreaker: Bestiary
- Replies: 54
- Views: 18145
Super-ultimate thread necromancy ho! Your current write-up has carnivore asuras and vegetarian elves. This seems backwards. The Sidhe and the Vanir were famous hunters, illusion magic is great for hunting, and you've already specified that elves are psychologically adapted for solitude and self-reli...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:59 am
- Forum: It's My Own Invention...
- Topic: Space Madness!
- Replies: 289
- Views: 105550
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:38 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: PbtA plus Agency?
- Replies: 63
- Views: 12337
So there's a teen superheros game called Masks: A New Generation. It's officially part of the PBTA brand, but seems to have had substantially more and better design work put into it than any other apocalypse hack I've looked at. Playing Masks has actually really helped me get a better understanding ...
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 4:10 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: It's Personal...
- Replies: 4839
- Views: 631802
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 2:21 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear CharGen/Geometric Advance Needn't Be Inherently Bad
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3806
- Mon Apr 15, 2019 1:55 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Exalted: The Infernals
- Replies: 123
- Views: 22759
But -- as I said in the other thread about this very issue -- there is no need to use incentives to try to push people toward generalization or specialization because as the designer you have it in your power to force people to be as generalized or specialized as you like. Even if you want people to...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 7:57 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Lo5R will be a LCG now
- Replies: 217
- Views: 40755
Splitting up a group has always been a headache in RPGs; I don't know of a single group that doesn't try to avoid it like the plague. Is there a way to support that, though? Like... when the face is doing his thing, most of the other players are sitting there with little to add to the discussion an...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:23 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Linear CharGen/Geometric Advance Needn't Be Inherently Bad
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3806
Linear chargen and geometric progession does one thing well, and that's encourage hyperspecilization at chargen followed by broadening during the campaign. But instead of incentivizing hyperspecialization at character generation with the promise of future advantages, you could just make it mandator...
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 9:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Moe to sexy girls 'color' wheel
- Replies: 161
- Views: 20777
- Thu Mar 14, 2019 7:39 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Moe to sexy girls 'color' wheel
- Replies: 161
- Views: 20777
- Thu Feb 14, 2019 2:56 am
- Forum: MPSIMS
- Topic: Zak Smith is Accused of Abuse
- Replies: 104
- Views: 60817
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 7:02 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
- Replies: 202
- Views: 83757
- Mon Dec 24, 2018 6:35 am
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
- Replies: 149
- Views: 36120
If you take a Prestige Class that increases your initiator level for a Martial Adept Class, are you allowed to trade-up one of your known maneuvers like you would be able to had you gained an actual Martial Adept level? That's a really big deal, because after a few levels, more than half the maneuv...
- Sat Dec 22, 2018 9:59 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: 4th edition D&D.
- Replies: 202
- Views: 83757
I'm not sure why it would bother anyone that many or even most of the races would have a fallen empire in their history. Even in real earth history, fallen empires are a dime a dozen. Most of the well-known ethnic groups of the modern world do have fallen empires to pine for. I actually really enjoy...
- Sat Dec 22, 2018 8:19 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
- Replies: 149
- Views: 36120
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:37 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
- Replies: 149
- Views: 36120
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 4:04 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
- Replies: 149
- Views: 36120
- Wed Dec 19, 2018 2:13 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: OSSR: Tome of Battle: The Book of Nine Swords
- Replies: 149
- Views: 36120
- Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:52 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Urban Fantasy: How Many in the Conspiracy
- Replies: 125
- Views: 16940
I keep forgetting that we're only talking about Luminary-tier supernaturals here, which might generate a misleading picture. Many of the trash monsters are unrelated to this question, of course -- when considering how many bloodsuckers a city can support, we don't need to worry about how many zombie...
- Sat Nov 17, 2018 11:23 pm
- Forum: In My Humble Opinion...
- Topic: Rambling about a SAME-ish system
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3360
Indeed, in most settings I can think of, PCs are expected to fight more NPCs with weapons than NPCs with magic, and more monsters with physical attacks than monsters with energy attacks. It's quite likely to be good for balance to have some kind of weapon that attacks magic defense, whether you skin...