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Thaluikhain wrote:
Eh, never had a real problem with that.

It's less "Spells are hard" and more "Tapping crouch triples my damage and de-aggros practically everything short of scripted fights." Shadow Warrior is hilariously stupidly strong.

Keaton for Superman. :) I would have rather had him than Eisenberg for Luthor, and I don't even really mean that as some shot at Eisenberg. At this point in his career I could imagine him getting away with lines from either Clancy Brown Luthor or Hackman Luthor and I can't really ask for more than ...

Grit ultimately comes down to letting the story linger on some themes more escapist works would immediately "fix" or never bring up at all. So-called "street level" power sets are associated with grittiness primarily because a smaller toolbox feels less disruptive to the status q...

Karma pool was genuinely destructive. The MUDs of the day were an exaggerated example of how hilariously bad it could get because longtime players were bouncing from GM to GM and required firm house ruling to be brought into line due to the bonkers progression speed you could achieve.

In fairness to Count, Stealth Archery really is bullshit strong and the controls for using it are way less annoying than futzing around with which hand you want a particular spell to come out of.

You can also just give out a small standard amount of Edge for free to every character instead of including it as a basic chargen option. Doing so has a couple of effects that I feel are largely positive: 1. It puts everyone on an equal playing field so that Edge Guy isn't so over or underpowered ba...

SR 1-3, they don't have Edge, they have karma pools, iirc a similar mechanic but not exactly. SR4 and 5 Edge are pretty close and in SR6 apparently they really changed Edge to be more like the D&D5 ad/disad mechanic, with reports that it's all kinds of terrible. I think SR4 does Edge "the ...

Alignment is really only useful for personal notekeeping because when you're writing letters to yourself it is far more acceptable to jot down humpty dumpty bullshit that other people may misinterpret. Personally though, I find it more useful to jot down which version of Gary Oldman I am ripping off...

On the other, I can certainly see why people thought it was a good idea to try, there's some useful stuff there if you can get it to work. I don't even think there's useful stuff there, frankly. If it worked at all the practical use of alignment would be to have a quick shorthand devs could use to ...

It didn't have to be so complicated. The big take away here is that you should avoid presenting contradictory information unless you have a reveal and a payoff that makes that information both logical and satisfying. A New Hope had the enormous advantage of being the first film in the franchise and ...

The Adventurer's Almanac wrote:Why is "having a gun" part of your skill set and not just the shit you carry in your bag?

Training. If it can't remain level appropriate eventually you may as well not have it.

The Thieves Guild is sorta defined as being a group of people who break the laws of the society, and if you are running the society you are the law. Doesn't that mean (unless you are doing something clever) that they are off-limits in practice to PCs? The entire draw of being a rogue is that you ge...

The thing is that there are still a lot of Samurai works to rip off and set in space. A New Hope is basically The Hidden Fortress. The Mandalorian is basically Lone Wolf and Cub. You know, Kurosawa made a lot of films, and you could rip a lot of them off for more Star Wars properties. -Username17 P...

Giving unpaid Rando Calrissians the impression that they have a real say in the creative process is often an unforced error. Remember, they are not your employees and they will not bring a sense of professionalism to the exchange. They are your potential customers and the last thing you want is a bu...

But you also will have completely good faith suggestions that you aren't going to accommodate. -Username17 Note how this isn't even covering fits of pique. Imagine if they made the terribly bad decision of handing the project off to me for free proofing. The following things would happen: 1. I woul...

Personally, it was great, globally, not so much.

Much of our vibe comes from so many of us being wizened homebrewers who have more in common with DIY auto restorers than enthusiastic brand fanboys. For example, when the OSSR for GURPS Goblins hit the boards my take away was that Goblins is a rusted out relic AND that I desperately wanted to strip ...

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Stahlseele wrote:I followedstalked Frank and Ancient History from Dumpshock.

Fixed that for ya [/I]

Just teasing

I mean, it's not wrong.

The dumpshock exodus would be kinda funny if it wasn't in response to crime.

On the TV side... gosh even the stuff I liked like Luke Cage has pacing problems so severe that I want to chew my leg off to escape. -Username17 Yeah, I'm not a MCU completionist so Luke Cage season 1 is when I punched out on the TV universe. It was a television heartbreaker, really, because there ...

Yeah, I think the bluntest way to put it is that it's all of the bad parts of the alignment system and paladin strictures ported over to a game about playing a fucking vampire. The mind reels.

Category of Sins Do you want Fluff? Do you want Crunch? Personal Yes! You totally want guidelines about how the different sects view baby-eating, and all that stuff about rules and taboos is gold . You want in-character rants from sample PCs who do-and-don't feel different ways about what monsters ...

Infinite planes and infinite demons are bad for all kinds of reasons. This. I think for the stories that we'd want to tell what you would actually want is some rules for running bad neighbor factions that still have to worry about carrying capacity but can terraform hexes and use bizarro world valu...

You casn't go in expecting it to be like Fallout though . . I would agree insofar that it's trying to be even more retro-stupid than Fallout but otherwise I can draw a pretty direct line between the shit I hate most and things old Fallout did. I think the most indefensible bit is the presentation o...

Considering that ppl are seriously saying that D&D dragons should have the option to meticulously grind enemies to death by dropping rocks from far out of strafing range, it's odd to bring up the examples where Smaug and two of Daenerys' dragons were killed by arrows fired from nonmagical weapo...

Normally I am not the sort of person who roots for failure. It is not part of my self-image. But Wasteland 2's dull writing and retrostupid attribute system has me kinda excited at the prospect of Wasteland 3 doing poorly. I have zero faith in those bumblefucks and if they're going to ruin the retur...