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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...

Its really not too much at all though, just takes some dilligence to update everything. If they don't have their own books (understandable) you might consider printing out the page with the level up chart (26?) so its easier for them to reference.

If thats what she actually said then you might be in a toxic marriage friend. Thats a little too vitriolic and unempathetic to not be an indicator of much bigger issues. Hopefully thats just a distortion from getting it second hand. But besides that, yeah take a break, and I'd also recommend...

Can't exactly delete a comment after it occurs me I don't actually want to interact with somebody. Oh well.

Well for one, hindsight isn't a skill or something you can practice. And more than that, the actual benefit of hindsight is about learning from your past experiences and applying them to future experiences. So if the flashback is supposed to be leveraging hindsight, then its completely...

I didn't say social mechanics are a dead end; I said social combat is.

Not necessarily. Thats why I pointed to the issue of mechanizing what humans are good at doing. You don't need fantastical traits to do something like planning a heist, even in a fantastical context. This is why I've said in other discussions that things like Social Combat are complete dead...

I think a question thats more to the point is does there need to be specific mechanics for it. This is one of those things where one might be trying to mechanize what humans are already good at doing on their own: leadership, teamwork, learning, and so on. Given enough tools to interact with...

I think if your heist scenario only involves stealth checks thats kinda lame. Even if its just checks thats kinda lame too. If we're going to the effort to do Oceans 11, theres a lot that has to go down for that level of heist, and smaller scale efforts aren't just being sneaky either. The...

Yep we're on the same wavelength there. Roll for what the failures will be, and then prepare to try and tackle them in-situ. Actually a really clever procedure. Blends all the really good parts of both sides of the heist.