Derrick Kapchinsky's latest activity

For the record I'm pretty sure the breakout game that did this was (as so often with modern gaming trends) 2010s Apocalypse World. Which...

I have to say, from my ages and ages of roleplay ^^^This^^^ can't be stated enough as "new design". I think it very much is. Maybe there...

Surely there's some middle ground between "DM is god of all they survey" and "I'm just a wee service animal GM." Maybe we could call it...

The GM who fails to fulfill player needs plays solo. Serve is only appropriate for paid DMs.

lol. We're playing a game together, we all create a cohesive group as a whole. It's straight up standard group...

Okay so what are the prayers I can use to decrease spell slots? What are the deeds that would decrease/increase my spell slots as a...

If Force Points aren't meta because The Force is a thing in the universe then Fate Points aren't meta in a whole lot of settings because...

No, I'm telling you that there is a calm and useful definition of metacurrency that you are completely ignoring in favour of, um, I...

Okiedoke. You can have your idiosyncratic interpretation. But don't pretend it's anything but that. There are standard and usual ways to...

Sigh. Ok, sure. Just because a mechanic directly indexes class mechanics and per day usage and also has no direct or useful connection...

The fact that you can spin a diegetic reason for it doesn't mean it's not meta. The force doesn't work in points and cinema jedi aren't...

I mean, I gave you Shadowrun, just five years later in 1989. WEG Star Wars used Force Points in 1987 - while the Force exists in the...

Somewhat - you could form a Team Karma Pool, and allow team-members to spend from it. You could not take from that pool back into...

Does Obi-Wan ever say, "Use your Force Points, Luke" ? Force points don't exist in the setting itself. Indeed, the Force is explicitly...

You saying I don't know doesn't actually, you know, change whether something is meta currency or not.