Micah Sweet's latest activity
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Micah Sweet reacted to Celebrim's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with
Love.
I like them. Cramming all the different rules into a single unified system often just ignores that the things being simulated are... -
Micah Sweet reacted to jian's post in the thread Distinct Game Modes: Combat vs Social vs Exploration etc... with
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Generally we tend to have four play modes: investigation, talking, fighting, and downtime. Investigation can be, well, just research... -
Micah Sweet reacted to GobHag's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with
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I use worldbuilding arguments but I don't actually care about worldbuilding, I'm just aesthetically against limiting classes with race... -
Micah Sweet reacted to Zardnaar's post in the thread Spoilers Falllout season 2 discussion with Like.
I liked it. Shrugs. Plots going somewhere as the Enclave was kinda assumed destroyed.
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Micah Sweet reacted to Tesral's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
I don;t like Human centric AD&D method of making Humans "special" by making everyone else suck. But I agree with the thinking here...
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Micah Sweet reacted to DammitVictor's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Love.
I am experimenting with a hybrid approach, where ancestries have "racial classes" (possibly multiple) and occupational classes are more...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Lanefan's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
OK, but what then takes Human's place as the baseline? If different species are to be measurably better or worse at certain things...
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Micah Sweet reacted to jmartkdr2's post in the thread D&D General [+] More Robust 'Fantasy Race' Mechanics for D&D-alikes / Redeeming 'Race as Class' for Modern D&D [+] with Like.
I think the best way to have your cake and eat it too is to have different classes for each race: humans are fighters, clerics, rogues...
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Micah Sweet reacted to DEFCON 1's post in the thread Sunday Chat: What New Editions Were Upgrades? Which Ones Were Downgrades? with Like.
I suspect that they all knew that with all the skills, backgrounds, knacks etc. from all the supplements that were not balanced against...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Looking for a good paladin example (TV/Movie).Captain Christopher Pike. Paladin to a fault.
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Sunday Chat: What New Editions Were Upgrades? Which Ones Were Downgrades?.Yeah, I really have no idea what John Wick was thinking with that game. To say nothing of the cluster that Kickstarter turned into.
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Micah Sweet reacted to GrimCo's post in the thread Sunday Chat: What New Editions Were Upgrades? Which Ones Were Downgrades? with Like.
7th sea 2nd edition was downgrade from 1st edition. First, they changed from call raise first, then roll to see if you made it to roll...
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Micah Sweet reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread Let's talk about "plot", "story", and "play to find out." with Like.
What does this actually mean? Like in concrete terms, how will this impact the decision process and the outcomes? I think you're...
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Yeah, I wasn't thinking "more popular." While that's a thing, I think it's plausibly easier for a movie to be more popular than a...
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Micah Sweet replied to the thread Goodman Games: Our Efforts Have Been Mischaracterized.We have that problem here too. Too many kinds of recyclable materials can't actually be recycled by many existing facilities, so most...