Micah Sweet's latest activity

That's one thing I liked about the Fantastic 4 movie. It presented a world in which the resident superheroes had actively taken a role...

The problem is, proactive superhero activity tends to go wrong as well, leading to authority issues and loss of freedoms. That always...

Can you please give me an example where more simplicity doesn't lead to fewer mechanical outcomes and/or less granularity? And please...

My preference for lower crunch systems has nothing whatsoever to do with the topic at hand. I was just making a comment about what I...

I'm not sure why your base assumption would be that the GM is lying about the world being full of things. It seems like a bad place to...

Fair enough, but that "want" is obviously subjective, so the so-called principle still doesn't apply. It feels to me like the poster is...

I'm good either way on that issue. I never had any problem with THAC0 or descending AC, so flipping the script on it isn't simply...

And the idea of running a campaign with it (or Rolemaster, or ACKS, or any other sim-heavy system) is very exciting to me. The value of...

Right, which is why the whole thing is subjective. If the principle doesn't work in practice to a degree I can appreciate, I can't see...

I think the point he's making is the results aren't always the same. Faster is only a guarantee of fastness, but not necessarily...

How can the result possibly be the same though? As has been said before, simpler and faster leads to fewer outcomes and less granularity...

And I'd prefer literally the opposite. We all have our opinions, and they can't all be supported simultaneously in the same game.

I think the team with parts is a feature of several of the folktales you mention, and it's certainly true of some of the fantasy...

I'd say yes and no. Yes in that it's evocative of a real-world sense of the fantasy material, that some of these people are flat out...

A few things here: --- remember, to one-shot anyone the monsters had to a) hit and b) roll well on their damage die; neither was at all...