Micah Sweet's latest activity

I agree. I think the best way is to just take the game you like the most for its base mechanics (Shadowdark in my case) and then slap...

And my preference is that one shouldn't make objective statements about things that aren't proven facts, or about their personal lived...

My general expectation is that everyone is speaking with personal bias, unless they're calling out with explicit language that they are...

Where did I suggest that I know your bias? I assume you have one, because no one is completely neutral. And what is a "testudo defensive...

Huh. See, as far as I understand how RPG play works those are the same picture. The pass/fail is the input and the changed diegetic...

That's not what I meant. The mechanics should be deciding if something worked or not (assuming that the mechanics were required). But in...

And that's a preference as much as any other, that's ok to express in a general discussion like this, even if it doesn't apply to...

Doesn't carry a lot of water to you. That's your own bias. Everybody has one.

Maybe you don't play newer games, or don't play them the way you suggest? I don't think you can discuss play styles and rulesets in a...

A rather vital support function without which the game likely collapses sooner rather than later, even if prep only consists of making...

We might not get very far, then, as I see the GM as being somewhere between a "player plus" and an entirely separate role; with the...

I understand your point, I just don't agree. Run a traditional game without a GM and then tell me the GM and what they do, at the table...

It's the subset I engage with though, so from my perspective it matters that the GM has more to do. Play at the table may be the heart...

My friends and I played a heck ton of Star Wars back in the 90s, and not once did they steal plans for the Death Star. In fact they...

I never really understood this sentiment. One of the things I've always loved about Star Wars is there were a million scenarios I could...