Recent content by Fenris-77

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I'm starting to see how post count is built. :p

Anything to work against unfounded player expectations is great in my books.

I usually change my trolls, or have more than one type, just to prevent players having to worry about this sort of thing.

The cost of mounts is it's own gate, which works the same it has since the 70's.

Yeah, except that SD doesn't do hirelings, very much on purpose. I mean you can, but the game is designed to work without them. That why, IMO, SD characters are better at 1st than a lot of other OSR type games.

Clearly. :geek:

This is a great example of my point. Also one of the strengths of the YZE system generally - it's very hackable.

Frankly, I don't think there is anything but other kinds of immersion. The experience being described there is so personal and so tied to interior brain stuff that we have no direct conscious access to that I struggle when people try too hard to start categorizing it. Sure, you can explain your...

I don't think that too many mainstream games lean so far into doing one thing that they can't do anything else. Even Alien can be used to a lot of different things in the scifi-horror space.

The term 'character destroyed' is pretty loaded, verging on outright purple prose. Probably not a useful term for civilized discussion. :D

And again, I disagree with you for the reasons I posted upthread. I am unconcerned with both the precise nature of the randomization and the method that is used to decide on task difficulty, and I was not indexing any of the specific systems you mention. My argument, simply, is that a decision...

My Nightmare Totoro, coming soon to a theater near you...

Oh yes. So, I'm working on the city supplement right now that will be PoD. After that, I'm going to do a revised and expanded core PoD book that collects all the rules and bestiary stuff from all the current PDFs and adds a bunch more stuff to the pot. That includes a much-expanded hex map and...

I have a Shadowdark setting designed to let people play in the Old World with different rules. I should try running this. I only played in it once, an embarrassing number of years ago.