Recent content by Mannahnin

I may have overstated his level of involvement, possibly due to half remembering one of his own (likely exaggerated) claims, but yeah. That's one of Dinehart's prior ventures. He was a salaried employee at Evermore and his LinkedIn lists his position there as "Director of Gaming". For a...

I agree that "fill in the blank spots" design is often lame and thoughtless. And can negatively impact the game even beyond being boring. For example I think it was a contributory factor to why Clerics got famously OP in 3.x, where we saw them suddenly get all sorts of new offensive spells and...

Good breakdown. 100% on all of it. I think it's clear that if Dinehart had better critical reasoning skills and judgement he would never have been involved in the trainwreck of Evermore or been associated with Lanasa and nuTSR in the first place. So it's no surprise for him to be wildly weird...

I wasn't shocked by it, as I had grown up with John Carter not too many years after LotR and Prydain, but absolutely. Wild and great. Oof. Yeah, Dan from Wandering DMs hits on this periodically and I completely agree. The self-referentiality of D&D often sucks, and yeah, I think a degree of...

Well, it could hardly avoid evoking Logan's Run. But I didn't like it nearly as much as Gattaca, by the same director.

Dude, I love you, but maybe switch to decaf? Damn, you are FIGHTY. Truth. I didn't think In Time was very good, but the concept was solid.

PT last night was fine, and I did my exercises this morning, but I had some good soreness and lacked motivation for the gym last night. Probably tomorrow, as I've got therapy after work and then a date.

"N-word" wasn't the name, but that was their fake Star Frontiers.

It's really not, except inasmuch that it's all "playing the game", and we're all on a continuum. Every one of us. Somewhere down at one end of extreme optimization is the guy who wants to play Pun-Pun in an actual game. And somewhere at the extreme opposite end is the guy who for the lulz...

Wut? I'm revising history, Stalin-style, if I suggest that people who think "optimizer" is a pejorative might be doing so due to associations with the "Character Optimization" forum which spawned Pun-Pun? I didn't spend a lot of time in those forums specifically because the average level of...

It may help to note that historically (to my recollection), "munchkin" originated in the early 80s as a pejorative nickname to refer specifically to young players who had no experience in grown-up wargaming/sci-fi/RPG culture and this had not acculturated to its norms and were frequently...

I think this is leaning a bit into prescriptivism, to be fair. I tend to agree that in my experience there is a difference between optimization and breaking the rules/munchkining, but I have to concede that these definitions are not universal. The origin of Pun-Pun was the WotC 3E and 3.5...

'Struth. "Vagabond". ;)

I think you're excluding the middle. It's at least partly an advert, and should be a showcase for the awesome things the game does better than/differently from D&D.