Thomas Shey's latest activity

Fail forward, or success with a setback, is tool like any other. Not every situation calls for a die roll. Not every situation is a...

Yea, I would agree with this. The source of the setting notes isn't nearly as important as the fact that those notes can be asserted in...

No there isn't anything wrong with making up lore on the fly. But with my experience with sticking to the same setting acoss decades, I...

Are you assuming by "not a sandbox" includes "only has very limited sandbox elements"? If so, I'd add a game where the PCs are a group...

I've said this in other threads on the topic, but I feel like that if you're interested in presenting the "living world" aesthetic, it's...

I do have to note back in the days when I was running sandboxes, I might very well do that with no real "purpose" at all, just because...

Back during the days when I'd sometimes run sandboxes (its a style that requires a more self-motivating group of players than the one I...

Yes, good call not having the bad faith poster who's also an open fascist on ignore. Very valuable person for you all to be...

Isn't that more about how a campaign dies than a game, though?

I don't think it's a good idea to belittle someone else's idea of "harm" and whether or not it truly puts it in the same rhetorical...

This is a very strange line of argument, but please, do go on.

Edit: On rethought, I'll just note that if you're unwilling or unable to accept that a term can be used for a range of degree, and...

The problem with that is that definition would have made most games DOA; they never supported more than a couple people at a time. Like...

Seems extremely unlikely, given that the main character is of tribal origin himself (that's part of what lets him relate well to the...

Much. Doggo in the leaves. :)