Micah Sweet's latest activity

I'll probably get this, my old 4E books were water damaged recently (and survived shockingly well, all things considered), so a new...

Just posted in the forums on SJG:

[Edit: a lot of people said similar things. I hadn't read subsequent pages yet. My apologies for any redundancy]. Agreed. It has, and...

Generally speaking, GURPS puts a positive value on traits that expands your characters ability to affect the world while giving a...

I don't want to see the core game get watered down. Personally, I don't feel that the game is nearly as complicated as it has a...

I'll say the same thing about this I've said when people suggest it about the Hero System; trying to move into the niche Savage Worlds...

Makes sense to me.

Who cares about the zeitgeist? If SJ Games tries to make GURPS into a system that's more like whatever the zeitgiest is, they will just...

There’s always a niche for crunchy games. The goal isn’t to do what everybody else is doing and struggle to stand out from the...

I have to ask: is there a driving need to always follow the cultural zeitgeist? And by this I mean that I think SJG is doing the right...

I do wish that not every new edition of every game didn't make a point to talk about how much they've simplified the system.

Best play would have avoided a single PC not designed for solo melee hurtling into combat alone, which would have probably prevented the...

I picked up all the 2e books in pdf from a Humble Bundle a while back.

I find deep lore to be somewhat unrealistic, even today people can't agree on recent history, much less what happened a thousand years ago.

Yup. I can't see another explanation. The whole thing seems self-inflicted at least to some degree.