Recent content by Thomas Shey

I've made the argument before that most forms of D&D are actually more complex than games that have a rep for being moreso because so much of it from day one has been exception based (i.e. there are a million little things to remember, especially if you need to play a spellcaster at either end...

My own feeling is "The amount that would probably be too much in a non-RPG." That is to say, my tolerance for a lot of game structure is high enough that to push it above what I might want (note the "might"; I don't insist on this in every RPG, but the less there is the more something else will...

Just went for the PDFs of the 13th Age 2e books myself.

But wasn't even a good generalization. CRPGs are notoriously longer than the vast majority of computer games. You have to hunt around to find ones that routinely approach the common lengths there, especially if you're looking in the AAA sphere.

This still requires me to accept that people I played with for decades had eidetic memory and could do advanced mechanics in their head. This is not a pair of assumption--especially the latter, which I've seen people, effectively, claim about doing basic addition, subtraction, multiplication...

It was challenging your generalization, which seemed a faulty one to continue the conversation--or any related one--on.

I'll just flat out say that doesn't fit my experiences. I know of some pretty short computer games (Looking at my currently installed ones, Weird Worlds - Return to Infinite Space), and even ignoring those, there's a massive difference between trying to play through pretty much any CRPG I've...

Depends how good they think the 5e implementation of the concept is, doesn't it? As I said, I saw several fail forward systems in different games before I saw one that I thought actually worked particularly well. Not all of them are created equal, and even if you otherwise appreciate a given...

I've heard a rather lot of people who think its the worst edition to date. Including people who disliked 4e and 5e.

I happen to look up a particular style of pin used (at least at one time) to fasten the pneumatic closer mechanism for a screen door to the mount end on the door frame. They're not cotter pins nor clevis pins (the latter being what I expect may have replaced them sometimes in the last few...

Then you might think about giving at least Eclipse Phase a look. (I'm not sure whether to recommend Fragged Cyberpunk or not. Fragged Empire is an excellent game, but both it and its Cyberpunk predecessor are waaaay the heck in the future.)

Oh, and how do you feel about when it bleeds into transhumanist stuff? I was trying to figure out whether to even bring up Eclipse Phase. Do you want near-future?

If you don't mind the SR sort of urban fantasy/cyberpunk hybrid, there's a couple of recent attempts to fish in that pond that might be worth a look: Vault and (more overtly) Sinless. For more traditional (though as you note, high tech) cyberpunk I probably would go with the most recent version...

Given I've seen dozens do that over the years in multiple groups, you're going to have to excuse me if I don't buy I've somehow managed to find the small subset that does that.

Unless I'm confused most of that is usually classed as Bronze Age.