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you said ‘technology’, not ‘talent pool’. I don’t disagree that there are talented artists around today as well. You get a hard disagree...

sorry, what? The technology has not really changed all that much when it comes to painting and printing pictures. What has changed is...

Decided to do a bit of an impulse buy today.

It is a baffler, to be sure. Well, the characters shouldn't be rolling most of the time. I just ran a game last Sunday and when the...

I agree with most of what you wrote here, apart from maybe what exactly the chance of failure should be. Many of the replies to the OP...

True @overgeeked ! However this is what the books are doing to me.

I am not sure how that even works, aren’t the players deciding what room they go in next? the ‘characters are inept and should have a...

I don’t know, it feels like it means both monsters and regular NPCs, certainly the ‘You're not supposed to have a reasonable chance for...

"Not superheroes" does not mean "weak, below average, sucking at things and dying like flies." Yup, I think you have to be interested...

but this very much sounded like it which is what I replied to

it’s not the rules light I was commenting on but that supposedly the characters should be weak, below average, sucking at things and...

I don't feel like combat is a failed state at all in Shadowdark, but it's definitely not the random blunder into a room and roll for...

I love all these unwritten rules that people are supposed to magically absorb.

yeah, if it is designed to be played like that, then lead with this, instead of having people discover it over their first dozen TPKs

sounds awful, no wonder @Retreater bounced off it