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Beyoncé High Concept: Global Pop Icon & Cultural Powerhouse Trouble: Living Under the Spotlight Other Aspects: “Sasha Fierce” on Stage Creative Perfectionist Philanthropist with a Queen’s Heart Skills: Great (+4): Performance Good (+3): Rapport, Resources Fair (+2): Athletics, Empathy...

Ok, so that is your interpretation of the characters in English. Great. Now are you going to show how to build them in your system and explain how they do stuff? Give us their character sheets, please

Typically you give a preview of the game, explaining which genres it works best for, the main rules it uses and its influences. Ok, please take the following 3 characters, build them in your system and walk us through how they would be played in a typical encounter, say extracting information...

Slight Aside: "Not really, maybe once or twice in an adventure" is an oxymoron for me as I generally have one or two combats ONLY in an adventure. In general I tend to plan out likely paths for an adventure, and script encounters for them, but my players commonly will then do something...

Well, this conversation has been helpful. I just checked my books and found that there is no penalty for a second shotgun attack at the same target, so you can fire two shots in one round and reload the next, so you get off one attack per round overall, rather than the 2 every three rounds I was...

I don’t think you can have played these games in longer campaigns. In NBA, you are fighting vampires, and vampires are famously vulnerable to piercing weapons, and very often completely immune to bullets, so switching between pistol and stabby weapon is absolutely a common thing. In CoC guns are...

Well, if you escalate the language and decide to portray players as very aggressive, then yeah, I can see why you hate that. Let's de-escalate your example before addressing it: Isn't the entire point of taking actions in the game to alter its reality? If I hit a window with an axe, isn't my...

Not completely convinced here. The difference between a ranged weapon and a melee weapon is almost certainly very important, even in games that have no cost for swapping. Examples I have run campaigns in: Night's Black Agents (GUMSHOE) -- very combat heavy. I wanted to encourage swapping...

The people I play PF2 with also have experience with many other game systems, which helps a lot. For example, Fate handles solos pretty similarly -- they are very hard to affect and very hard to defend against without assistance -- you need to build advantages. For me, this is a good feature. I...

I like to use a phrase like “as an experienced (investigator|marine|dungeon delver|…) you are confident you have discovered everything of value here and can move on”

Really? I’ve run maybe 200 sessions and this has never been even slightly on the table. Cultists, deep ones, elder things and even an occasional shoggoth, but an Elder god like Cthulhu or Nodens? That’s never even been close to on the table. I guess if you play a pulp style maybe, but then …...

Yeah, I had fun playing in a one shot. After 8 sessions it felt very tedious. Random death, insanity being caused mostly by teammates screaming nearby, by firing automatic guns (seriously) and rolling badly when trying to read a map, and a set of skills that never quite seem to match the actions...

I’ve had arachnophobia come up a couple of times. It was not a major feature of the game and it was very clear what the issue was, so easy to work around. I ran a horror game for a birthday party where I foolishly did not, as I usually do, check for issues beforehand and had a player x-card a...

Getting back to the original question, I've run many con games, some my own, some for companies, and some as part of living campaigns. My top pieces of advice would be: When prepping a game, make sure you know how to long the final scene (may be one of a couple) will take and cut to that scene...

Well, this assumes that all the potential distressing events have happened and been described simultaneously. I'm not sure exactly how that could happen. Typically people would use the X-card pretty much as something occurs and in the cases I've seen it used, it's been because the descriptions...