Anon Adderlan's latest activity

Hmm. Cryptozoic says the license holder says no legal digital versions of the game. I really hope they come to their senses on that.

I don't know that the bolded part is true. Brennan, across all his projects, has a tendency to only throw to the dice when he's...

Sure, but don't most games that have mechanics allow for this? Use your judgment and do what makes sense. And what would be more...

Mechanics provide for a sense of fairness, for lack of a better term. They take the decision out of the GM's hands to some degree or...

I don't think that's true. I think that maybe it's true consulting a lot of tables and making a lot of calculations repeatedly might...

There are plenty of reasons why! I don't even see why that is controversial. This goes all the way down to pre-RPG "make believe"...

But you aren't addressing the question of why the rules would or wouldn't get in the way. The rules don't really get in the way of...

No one I've ever heard of chooses a RPG to handle combat specifically because it lacks rules for combat, but lots of people choose an...

I've talked about this before and I think it's a bit of a misdirection to talk about this as the blank spaces in the system as if they...

I see myself a lot in this. It's not actually that much the social interaction pillar that bothers me, because in fact every D&D edition...

Yeah, that was my thought. Politics means somewhat different things to different people. Honestly, no one person or small closed group...

Plenty of rpgs avoid real-world politics so this is nonsense.

Don't be afraid of or prejudicial towards resources talking about video game design. Game design is a lot more universal than many are...

By rendering what/how PCs speak meaningless you invalidate a player's social acumen and force them to rely on their mechanical acumen...

I am super excited about this! FoF wasn’t simply disappointing, I found it bad—poorly written, poorly explained, and ultimately poorly...