Recent content by el-remmen

That’s not the same category of claim.

“Everyone who claims to enjoy that incredibly popular game I hate, but talk about ceaselessly, is either stupid or a liar” is a serious take some folks around here seem to cling to without reflection.

I can't help but read "502 Error Bad Gateway" as if it were someone scolding a dog named Gateway and keeping count of how many mistakes its made so far.

Yeah, I did try to check Meta but I got a 502 error again, hit the back arrow, which happened to be this thread, so I chanced an ask, since I was not sure I could navigate reliably.

Is it just me or has ENWorld been really choking the last 72 hours or so?

Sometimes the rules in even one of those books were not even very compatible with each other (and this was even more the case between “complete” books), but like all things splat book, they are a collection of optional rules to pick and choose from and I never thought of them any differently.

I just wanted to thank @M.T. Black for this series and inspiring me to return to my own. I hope to update my Dragon Mag Monday series with issue #113 on the HOW I RUN IT blog the week after next (I have it written just need to proofread and layout the art examples).

Ours is a little long dog with long legs 🤷🏽‍♂️ We call her “a long legged weiner”

Combine them and you get my dog.

Yes. They were surprisingly more explicitly political than I thought they would be without being direct allegory (which is personally a draw for me).

I am just concerned that with all the skill bonuses, situational stuff, achievements, gear, that actual play will feel a little too crunchy fiddly, which is great when you have an AI + HUD to handle it all, but not so great during tabletop play. But gonna have to see it in action.

They definitely get better, which is not to say you should slog through if you detest the first one, but I was kinda ambivalent after the first one but got sucked in by the second. However, all that being said, I think the audio book version is better than the print book.

I didn't scroll down far enough the first time! Thanks! I am still on the fence, tho. If I for certain had people to play with I would probably wouldn't hesitate as much - but leaning card game over RPG at this point.

I am very curious about these games (probably the card game more, since I find it hard to imagine running the RPG as it plays in the novels), but until there is more specific info about how they both work, I am not willing to lay out the bucks. Hopefully, I will get a chance to pick up both or...

I've decided that since I once played RPGs with a really weaselly and unreasonable dude who did their best to exploit every rule and paid no attention to setting or genre, I am going to rewrite all my house rules to specifically address that kind of player and never give any player even an inch...