Recent content by Emberashh

Yeah out of all the big players that came out of the Forge I think Baker is the only one who never developed a terminal case of foot in mouth like Edwards or Crane did. And in regards to Edwards brain damage comment, the irony is that despite the thinking that those games in the 90s were...

Its daunting to learn, sure. After all, its rooted in 3.x. DND. BUT, the beauty of it is that all the non-mage stuff is pretty simple, and for mages we have Purple Sorcerer to do cleaner reference pages for the Spells, and then they become simple. Beyond that it runs as cleanly as any other...

I'd shout out DCC as well. Its big like the games his group are used to but its dramatically simpler to learn and run.

Yeah thats been a common criticism with DND and DND likes. But what you're pointing at isn't really exceptions. They're just abilities. Exceptions would be where a general rule works in X way, but then some obscure part of the rules says that rule now works in Y way. Eg, the Y exception is...

Yeah you're not wrong on the presentation. Where its at now is mostly just to get things down on paper in a way that isn't a convoluted mess of hand written notes and things ive forgotten. Like for example the fact that I still forgot to cover how Spell Materials work. Got dangit. Over time...

A nice clean update. I decided on splitting the difference, giving a default effect but still leaving the spells up to improvisational interpretation. Also returned the bespoke Elemental Welds, and expanded on the idea of Holding spells, which I used as a good vehicle to just include all of the...

Oh boy, here we go again!

This is why I think peak design is finding ways to make the two of these, metagaming and playing to the character (eg roleplaying), identical. The Tension Pool is still a great example of that. It doesn't matter if the players approach the Pool from either perspective, because how they're...

I have a $300 GM Screen and I just bought, today in fact, an even fancier one for around 700 all in. I'm also an absolute dice Goblin whilst simultaneously being a sucker for Gemstones and Metal. I don't want to admit how much I've spent on that though. 😬

I think the contention may be just a matter of what is or isn't free game to just reprint when it comes to writing content third party. Eg, its a pain in the ass to have to tiptoe through the tulips to not accidentally print something you legally can't, when its something like a stat block...

Gunn says its an in camera shot. I could plausibly see that as like a testing shot, but then I don't see the value in calling out that its "in camera", which to me is like you're saying this what the movies going to look like. Which, to be frank, isn't all that far off from his style.

Snyder really needed, and still needs, a writer that knows how to work with how he does his films. Its always the writing that suffers if he isn't just doing a frame for frame of a comic book.

I honestly can't say I care all that much about the suit or the hyperjacked color saturation, but more why this of all things was the way to show off the new Superman. If the biggest issue with Cavill is that his and Snyders take didn't feel like Superman, and this is all supposed to restore...