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It is one of my favorite mechanics, especially at con games. When I run Savage Worlds, for example, I use a player pool of Bennies that...

it's always new to someone. Like my kids hearing a remix or cover of one of my songs and thinking it's new. (Bonus points if my version...

Oh, yeah, big time. That sort of positive/negative rider mechanic has been used a lot in the past 15 years or so.

OK, looking into it, for Genesys games each character takes one Complex and two Simple actions per turn, but the narrative die rolls can...

Hope and Fear also give some Threat and Momentum vibes from 2d20.

Not sure offhand, I would guess Pathfinder. I do know that the Cosmere action economy was designed for future proofing: they plan to...

I’m not policing your speech, I’m letting you know that a term you’ve used is a dogwhistle, assuming you didn’t know it was a...

He isn't talking about Canon, he is just thinking through his own interpretation.

Yeah, on the same wavelength but not similar enough that they are influencing each other directly. Inspired by similar antecedents...

I'm somewhat in the same boat. I think it requires too much improv compared to what my table is prepared to do. But it has beautiful...

This is why competition is good for the consumer.

The very idea makes me angry for some reason.

As a casual observer, it is pretty shocking that Kickstarter did not help more with the back end side much earlier.

And vice versa—in response, Kickstarter now has its own integrated pledge manager. Which if they’d done a few years ago when everybody...

That's because society as a whole doesn't appreciate creatives or even feel that creatives should be paid well.