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Exactly can't get a decent rare steak in the UK, except in a top end restaurant.

Going by that illustration, rare, or even blue. Although good luck getting a steak cooked like that in the UK, they always overcook them in most places. Thankfully go to Spain often enough to enjoy decent steak.

Or at least more reliable risk free money.

Calling Birmingham "up north" is fighting talk! You don't get to call the midlands "up north".

Who's attending UK Games Expo this year or other conventions for that matter?

I live on the Wirral. More specifically my local games shop (Board, TTRPGs and a little Wargames) is Bulwark Games in Bebington Village, which is turning into a little geek mecca. As together with the games shop it also has Karken Comics which combines a comic shop with cafe so you can read...

Only up to episode 3, but I love the reference to his knighthood they sneak into that one.

Hope you folks appriciate these are all original content I've discovered in the wild.

Depends what you mean by tech. If you mean with a microchip I have an iPad 2 that still seems some use. But I have a manual hand drill, that was my dad's and possibly his dad's that still gets use. Looks at lot like this one.

Star Trek 2nd Ed is the same. Also what it says in the current System Reference Docs. "The normal method of buying additional d20s is by spending Momentum, as discussed later. In brief, this is paid from the group’s Momentum pool (because it’s done before a Skill Test is rolled), and costs 1...

Cybergeneration - The Cyberpunk spin-off where the kids were fighting against the corporation had what it called the Plotpath. Cyberpunk had a Lifepath during character creation but since you were playing kids you didn't have a life yet. Unlike the Lifepath in Cyberpunk the Plotpath wasn't...

So you are correct read Difficulty for TN in my post, which the GM does have control over by spending threat. Also the GM usually picks the Skill used, and the Player the Drive in Dune for example. Buy spending before they roll I mean spending Momentum to grant more dice. 1 = +1 dice, 3 = +2...

I've played Star Trek 2nd Ed, and Dune, and run Dune I didn't get that feeling at all. As far as I've seen successful rolls where you get over the TN of successes is the only way to gain momentum. You can give Threat to the GM in return for the effects of momentum, but it isn't momentum...

Use to love games like GURPS and Hero System, now I prefer game with simpler mechanics. I don't mind a little complexity as long as the core mechanic is straight forward. You can have depth and complexity to your character design process so long as the character is easy to use once the...