Recent content by Argyle King

I don't have much time with Genesys. Even though it is the underlying generic version that was extracted from the Star Wars games, I think Edge remains a better game. It's more than just one design choice that leads to the game being good. The dice are a big part of the experience, but they...

I'm not as familiar with Genesys, but I have played a lot of Edge of Empire (which is mostly the same system). You have success VS failure. You also have advantage VS threat. On top of that, you may use high skill, help from allies, or favorable circumstances to upgrade to better dice that...

That's kinda what I thought, based upon previous news. It's unfortunate. I was surprised by how much I liked it. I've borrowed some of the mechanics to use when playing some of the other games I play. I'm aware that Genesys is the underlying system, but it doesn't seem as good as FFG Star...

Originally, I thought of them as a barrier. After playing a few games with them, I've come to enjoy some of them. So, it depends on the implementation and how well the game works. The Dice Chain for Dungeon Crawl classics is fine. It's easy to get those dice, and the implementation of how...

Honestly, I do think that the 1-second round is probably a hurdle for people more accustomed to other games. However, there are trade-offs, so it depends on what's important to you. Like drawing an arrow or changing the belt on a machine gun might take a whole turn, and that maybe seems like a...

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I don't necessarily disagree with that. There's a learning curve to figuring out which pieces you need. However, that's why this Kickstarter is a good product. It does that work for you and presents a self-contained game. GURPS products which also do that are After the End (Fallout, Mad Max...

Thread 'Kickstarter: GURPS Mission X' Kickstarter: GURPS Mission X

Bumping this because it came up in a discussion elsewhere

Physical product isn't as prevalent for GURPS, but there is still a relatively steady stream of pdf and print-on-demand product. There is also an upcoming Kickstarter for a GURPS product.

I appreciate the responses. I'm glad to see attempts at productive discussion about a topic that has been divisive in the past. At the same time, I feel there is value in looking at more than one (D&D) game. In your previous response (before the one I quoted) you had mentioned something about...

Over 30+ pages, it seems that the conversation revolves around how D&D does bioessentialism badly. How have non-D&D (ttrpg general) games done it better?

Re: D&D 4E Skill Challenges I've said this elsewhere, but I ran them very differently when I was running 4E. Instead of X successes before Y failures, I allowed #N total rolls and then used the Margin of Success (if I can steal a GURPS term for a moment) or Margin of Failure to determine a...

I know you're familiar with D&D 4E, so a Roguelike might be similar to an encounter deck, but the map would also be randomly generated. Though, once a piece is generated, it is there and it exists. You might know the starting point and the end "win" condition, but everything in between would...

I don't think there's necessarily "scenes" at all. In some, maybe there are. There might be a defined start point and a defined end/win point, but most everything else is randomly generated. This isn't a great analogy, but it would be like using both a random hexcrawl generator and random...