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You're just flatly wrong. I've played 35 years of TTRPGs and people who optimize but don't hog the spotlight are ten-a-penny. You might...

Sorry but it's just not accurate to claim PCs have "very little control" over Stress. They don't have total control but it's basically a...

@overgeeked Your definition of "optimizer" from the previous thread is both ridiculous and insulting, frankly. You're straight-up...

Haven't read it and haven't read good things about it, but I will say that the particular blend of races and classes in this book's...

The social contract among a lot of optimizers is to always try and share the spotlight and generally not be a big jerk. At least, this...

Speaking of r/Daggerheart, this dropped. Daggerheart for Owlbear Rodeo.

My original post was a “I don’t think the game is designed for the sort of attritional gameplay and why would you bother.” Got 3...

I think you could do that, and the first time you did it might be kind of interesting (and it might work if deployed very occasionally...

I played in one Mage the Ascension 1e game. I learned to play from reading a friend's Mage core book without having one of my own but...

I don’t think you need to have attrition-based play, but from reviewing the rules, I suspect the ruleset would support it. Since on a...

There are - Splendor has stuff that heals Stress for example, and if you roll a crit you recover 1 Stress as well as gaining 1 Hope...

I ran Mage: the Ascension for many years and I also found it to be both an amazing RPG and a terrible one. I've always been a somewhat...

I definitely think Stress is supposed to power slightly stronger abilities, on the grounds that it's "easy" to get Hope, but somewhat...

Absolutely phenomenal AAR! I really appreciate the time you took to write it, and explaining your decisions along the way.

Oh I think they're pretty powerful, he just played very aggressively and didn't back off to drink a healing potion when he should have...