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My understanding is that the reason they wanted to streamline tieflings was to give them a common visual identity for miniatures, which...

That's not entirely true, particularly not for casters, but it's not very well explained in the book. The descriptions of the different...

Yeah, when they're reduced to 0 stamina (hp) they blow up and deal some damage to adjacent enemies and objects. Many of their...

They are collectively brainwashed/indoctrinated. Basically, Ajax (the implied setting's Big Bad) has gotten access to alien "Body Banks"...

I don't have Daggerheart so I can't compare the two, but in Draw Steel your kit is your whole combat equipment loadout. So you decide on...

September 11666, 1993, to be precise.

I think my issue with it is that it presumes that character creation, including background, is something done in isolation. As in "We're...

I like the way 13th age does it. There are some exceptions, but for the most part it works like this: your race gives you the choice of...

For me, the issue of backstories depends. In a typical game of D&D/Pathfinder or similar games where you start out at 1st or 3rd level...

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I would have thought having wish age the caster 3 years, with the possible system shock roll needed for each casting, would have been...

I remember making a character in a shortlived Eon campaign who was certain that humans' relative shortlivedness was a gift, not a curse...

I think my most visceral reaction to a new version of an old property was Mission: Impossible, because of the way it utterly betrays the...

It sounds like Vaesen uses different consequences for pushing than OG MYZ. In MYZ, it's more of a push-your-luck mechanic. When you make...