Recent content by gban007

Reread Otherland book 1 recently. I think it is a good book with lots of interesting ideas, but I find it a slow read, something about it makes it hard for me to to stay engaged with it too long, so haven't gone on to book 2 yet, reading other books that keep me more engaged.

I think you can to an extent, but potentially could be on different pages on what terms mean and think on same page, so isn't perfect. Certainly has made me more aware of questions I could have asked in the past to have either better feel ahead of how campaign would go, or in one case possibly...

The more I follow these various posts where I can, and the differing ways people play different systems , and as Umbran says with such a limited pool doesn't give good guidance on how any table one may come across may play a sandbox vs railroad, or dnd, or BitD or PbTA, it gives me a lot of...

Goodman games have said they aren't doing Dungeoneer, which is good. They have said that the post contained inaccuracies. But I wouldn't have thought it would be that hard to confirm or deny whether they are paying royalties to JG since 2022. Their silence on this matter is concerning, as...

Quite behind really. As have read quite a bit this year, but currently cycling between Peter Hamilton commonwealth/ void books and various Adrian Tchaicovsky books, interspersing with Apothecary Diaries light novels as fun light reads.

Yeah, was good, but a hard read, and so far haven't been able to continue into future volumes

For me, it wasn't clear until this post that both were actual personal experiences, vs one being personal and one hypothetical. Putting that aside though, it came across as it is only words vs being targeted by an explosion, which feels like it is saying if not an explosion it can't be that bad...

If a thousand word post isn't getting the point across that you want to get across, going to two thousand word posts instead isn't likely to help

Well yeah, shouldn't rely on Wikipedia, but I would trust Wikipedia more than ChatGPT.

Fair enough, and as I reflect your previous threads etc on burning wheel also support that it is very much a stakes driven game, and tightly written to support that, and while a specific question may be a yes one time, and roll the dice I another similar situation, that would only be because the...

Isn't Burning Wheel 'say yes or roll the dice' which is similar idea, if don't feel anything at stake, say yes, otherwise roll the dice. But the DM may approach it differently as to whether a situation should be yes or not depending on nature of campaign/ how approaching it.

They are connected, but are distinct. Dnd has one set of procedures for resolving actions. However, whether I'm playing a railroad or playing a sandbox will change which procedures I'm applying when, and so how i respond to player choices will vary. I put an example in the other thread I think...

I always thought the Exile / Avernum / Geneforge series would make for good TTRPGs but not sure how much is their mechanics vs the world's.

I usually respect a lot of your posts, but here Faolyn clearly stated that Hussar said that Ironsworn was better for sandbox games, you say here Hussar didn't, people provide plenty of examples where Hussar did say that Ironsworn is better for sandbox games, and now you're saying that the claim...

I think we as a group have tended towards traditional, but have been branching put a lot lately, and playing games like 2d20 systems or FFGs systems are giving a taste of metacurrencies and giving players more control over the system, so they may be open to it.