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I really appreciate the distinction between being special and being powerful. Weak special characters can be pretty great.

I'd differentiate between being special and being powerful. Okay, if you're more powerful than most people, that makes you special in a...

I’ve never read any of those. Adding it to my long-term list. Sometimes I’m really up for that kind of retro.

I just finished this. It only took me 1.6 hours to read. It also took me almost a week to get that 1.6 hours. Man I hate my brain...

Thread died down a little, so I guess I'll say some stuff I've been thinking about. At some point early in the thread someone said...

What's so bad about Saxon alliterative verse? ... Oh sorry, thought you meant Beowulf.

Just started reading the Fifth Season by N.K.Jemison, been on my to read list for a while but also found out been mixing it up with A...

Oh no, it's not the most complex system ever, but it is on the complex end, especially if one takes all the supplemental material into...

Looking at what I’ve messed around with lately, I find PCs who have great heroic potential, who may or may not have achieved any of it...

The PCs are the stars of the game. They're the most special characters in the whole wide world. The whole campaign literally revolves...

It really depends on the game. I like gritty, low power games where the PCs have to consider all fights to be potentially lethal. I...

After having it in my library for many years, I'm finally digging into Gibson's Neuromancer.

Watch the car chases in Ronin. Those are great car chase scenes.

I’m not (yet) going to the extremes of some of my writer friends, reading wound manuals and the like, but I definitely prefer violence...