Recent content by Fenris-77

Yeah, I like "I need an NPC on the fly" generators. I'll be putting one in Ashalom for the reasons you mention.

I don't mean the sort that, say Shadowdark has, where a background stands in somewhat abstractly for a possible skill list. In that case the player needs to think hard about his character in order to justify the application, which is all to the good. This links specific actions with specific...

Or a game that doesn't have a character skill mechanic. There are lots of those.

Here's a good question. Would you want to see a specific procedure for running investigations or would you prefer to just freehand things with the city elements provided?

This is the way.

Nope, sorry. Other games, like Monster of the Week (just as one example) handle party splitting just fine. Nothing changes and the system chugs on. It's not a GM skill issue. I can move the spotlight around just fine thanks, it's neither a complicated nor rare skill. The problem in this case...

And in this case you are factually incorrect. Most OSR games are very upfront about the function of encounter rolls. That function is only peripherally diegetic (at best). I don't give a good goddamn how many times you repeat the same biased and incorrect things btw, but if your throat is...

Oh no, no you don't. You don't get to say it's diegetic enough here but not in the case of metacurrency where the only difference is that your opinion of the underlying mechanic is different. Sorry man, you need to pick a stance and stick with it. Encounter rolls are, not to put too fine a point...

That isn't even remotely what those mechanics are actually doing. You know it and I know it. We are gentlemen and lies do not become us. So, Princess Bride quotes aside, this is still some shaky analysis. The design of encounter rolls has nothing to do with diegetic anything. It has to do with...

You also said you have no experience with encounter rolls or OSR games, which is what I was specifically talking about. That would suggest that you don't have anything to say about those mechanics. And those points are in complete contradiction, that's we are having this little contretemps...

My man, you are busy criticizing rules and mechanics you have no experience with. You don't get to play the badly designed card here. I'll also point out that your rules as setting truth position is precisely the opposite of your newly stated intolerance for badly design rules position. Rather...

This all begs the question as to why you're making declarative statements about systems and playstyles you have no experience with.

Yeah, I don't even think we're speaking the same language. You seem to think that the author's intent, or even oversights and mistakes are somehow more important that common sense in-setting tactics. I don't care a pig's fart for the author's intent, not am I even peripherally willing to put up...

Huh. I love the Middenheim book. To each his own I guess. Maybe you want to expand a little on what the actual features are in those examples that you like and don't?

So explain to me how encounter rolls are a setting truth (whatever that is). You need to step back from shizz like my desired setting truths too, that is some wonky and awkwardly pointed verbiage there my doode. My reading of your post is that you have some kind of fundamental misunderstanding...