Micah Sweet's latest activity

By the A5E rules as written, a Druid can wild shape into plant or beast form, and use their Druid proficiencies therein. Druids have...

Never played TORG. That much narrative mechanical weight seems a little off-putting to me, though I'm sure others like it.

Dungeon Fantasy gives solid mechanical support for dungeon exploration and creative engagement with the environment. That’s one of the...

Well, no way a vegepygmie is using a heavy shield.

Are we talking just core rules, or with lots of supplements/setting material? I'll assume the latter.... Shadowdark Dragonbane MERP...

Pendragon is a good one, and definitely falls into my exception category for genre-appropriate play (although I appreciate all the...

Pendragon might be a case - it really enforced certain themes of honour and chivalry romance through the rules.

Unfortunately, almost all the ones I used that way back in the day (and thus have stuck throroughly in my head) were Hero System based...

Can you give some examples? I haven't played games like that in a while.

Are we assuming the druid is Wildshaping into a gorilla, or something else with hands? Because otherwise, how are you wielding that shield?

I did say there were exceptions. Savage Worlds has always had some metacurrency, but most of its rules, like those of most traditional...

Entirely fair. I might think you have to be--very cautious--in defining "traditional game" to make this work, but that's a nitpick.

Well technically you could build that character. But the thing with GURPS is that if you write a plain English description, you can just...

Shrug I don't see much you have offered here to actually make a point. But it seems that you are really more interested in...

It is more than that, it applies to adjudication of actions as well. Whether it is some something grounded in life or in fiction, GURPS...