Recent content by Seule

As far as I remember, we started with D&D and then rapidly tried Boot Hill and Top Secret, with an attempt at Traveller that never went anywhere.

It looks like they took a lot of other things from Werewolf the Foresaken (part of said Chronicles of Darkness) and it all looks like good changes. Plundering a better version of your game to revise your game seems like a great idea. :)

It isn't my hobby, my hobby includes other games. For some people however it is.

Trust me, I had fears back then too. They have now been born out. It took much, much longer than expected. In this case, it's a boycott of Hasbro for me (not that that changes a lot), if WotC somehow goes independant again we'll talk. :)

WotC maybe. Hasbro no. Having a megacrporation own your hobby is never a good idea.

We played a demo a few years ago now and I'm very glad that there are 4 classes. We only had 3 (IIRC) so one of the four characters seemed extraneous. It was great fun. For us at least it was very Lankhmar.

5e is clearly a game that works for many people, and presumably does what it was designed to do well, for example it's easy to learn with low overhead and draws in new players really well. It also plays as a spectator sport for all the same reasons. It's not the game I want to play but that...

I was mostly a fan of 4e flawed as it was, and am now getting my 4e-alike fix from Pathfinder 2. Most of the things that I did like in 4e that were discarded for 5e were incorporated in some way in PF2e. I recommend anyone who like me misses the good bits of 4e to check it out... and the SRD is...

The one time I tried it many years ago I rolled a beggar and then determined it was mathematically impossible for me to damage the first thing we fought. I think it was a zombie. I was not impressed. I think the GM didn't set expectations very well.

There will be people who claim that Mordenkainen isn't a villain. They will be wrong. :)

Generally, when someone more powerful is accused of abuse by someone less powerful it's usually true. The accuser almost never gains by the accusation and usually loses overall, and victims are aware of this. If it's something that seems very out of character and there's no other sign of...

I've also played Timewatch at a convention and given that and the general solidity of the Gumshoe rules I expect this to be similarly fantastic.

I'm in a playtest group and the softcover rules are very valuable. Sure they update stuff but most things are still unchanged and looking up in a paper copy is easy. Knowing what's changed isn't hard.

I have a Chrome plugin that changes 'political correctness' to 'treating people with respect'. It seems particularly appropriate in this thread.

Stat envy is when someone else's character is better at what your character's main schtick is than you are. It is trivial to imagine a party where the Bard (primary stat Charisma) has a lower Perform score than several other characters simply because they had a spare 16+ to stick into that stat...