pemerton's latest activity

Just picked this up to read over the holidays. Love what I'm seeing so far.

I believe this is pretty squarely a “NSR” game, which generally wander away from old school D&D tropes and mechanics while keeping to or...

OK, so more like PbtAs where there is no real concept of 'difficulty' beyond "did you roll against a good stat bonus" which MB also...

In BitD, don't position and effect affect the size of the dice pool? In Mythic Bastionland, there is no difficulty adjustment - it's...

I would expect that you could consider impact similar to BitD effect. You could think of leverage as similar to position. intent and...

Another thought on this game - which obviously I've become temporarily obsessed by! - that also relates to some of the issues in the...

It's not about convincing. Everyone can manage that for themselves, for sure. I was just pointing out that the game is quite popular as...

Why would I push back? Because I think you are entirely incorrect. I know you think the issue is obvious, but given that there are many...

I don't disagree with you, in principle anyway. I supposed where I begin to disagree is with the notion that Brindlewood Bay is the...

Well, we clearly disagree in detail about BBay, what it does, and the extent to which is successful. If this were a thread about BBay...

I don't disagree that Apocalypse Keys has some strong mechanical design, it does indeed. I do disagree that BBay 'fails to deliver' and...

I'm not completely convinced about the separation between 'solving a mystery' and 'telling the story of solving a mystery' as usefully...

Thanks for the link to that blog! I agree with the blogger that there are some gaps in the rules, but actually don't think the Myths...

There was some good discussion of how prepping and running the Myths could use a little more bones then the book gives in a Discord I...

Thanks! The last time I filled in a hex map it was for my Torchbearer 2e game, and was just transcribing from my GH maps so that I could...