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Allow me! It looks rather dated now, but it was totally the (X) bomb in the 80s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Bomber

You know what, I'm going to back you up on this one.

Wasn't aware of this thread. Mine are several -The romance in ESB has aged poorly -Lucas is a brilliant director -Rings of Power...

We’re still doing opinions we think are probably unpopular, right? - The Avengers (2012) is a bad film, one of the least watchable in...

The Harry Potter book series is a collection of lazy tropes that is elevated by what people read into it, not what's actually there.

Yes, that’s true, I hadn’t remembered that. Looking at the Advanced rules now, you make an Endurance check for both: Stun White...

Stuns could be resisted or mitigated with a successful Endurance check so they weren’t considered as effective. And yes, we used those...

In Cortex Prime IIRC you can use PP to add rolled or kept dice as you say, but also to add an Asset or create a Relationship, which are...

We all have our opinions, of course, but in a MSH game focused on combat (it was the 90s and we were heavily influenced in our teen...

Sure, but swastikas started as symbols of spirituality and luck and we all know what happened after they were appropriated. So for any...

Generally in such games it’s not a requirement to generate Plot Points via role playing (or getting yourself in trouble, rather) but...

Just because the comics do have characters who should be able to trivially outperform their colleagues at almost everything doesn’t mean...

That all sounds excellent and it’s always great to hear of a campaign really coming together that way. That said, I think we’re talking...

Part of the problem is that the superhero genre is actually very, very broad and narratively variable, so what the rules of reality are...

Coming back to pitfalls in game design, I’d like to talk about one that occasionally comes up in the games I read, which is...