Thomas Shey's latest activity

At a more than usually educated guess, I expect you'll be waiting forever. I didn't think the last draft was ready for primetime and as...

Its a hard question to answer. There are things I like about AGE, but at inception (Dragon Age) there were some serious problems...

Probably their best design, honestly; it didn't try and do more than it was capable of. But at one point George realized on some level...

There's no need to be sulky because I don't think your simple solution is always or even usually a solution. Its just explaining why I...

And that's where I disagree; I think both of those (though the first more than the second) can be made better by handling. If you...

The problem is, I don't believe all groups are good at actually communicating what they want as long as the GM is treated as the main...

I'd make the same claim about some other games over D&D, but here we are. As someone who played in a WC campaign and ran an Armageddon...

"Should be" is not a term I ever used. I just said there are practical reasons that works that way, same as there are reasons D&D is as...

Fragged Empire does it reasonably well, though as you say, they're very focused on one-on-one fights.

I'm sorry, I really can't see the Technocracy as more wild than the followers of the Mad God. Heck, I don't even consider them more...

I don't think that disproves my point though at all - in fact that's what I said - the only time RPGs typically go more than 10 years...

Not the criteria all of us are using. I'm often talking about what I believe is probably beneficial to the majority of players. I...

Yeah, that's pretty unusual.

Part of that is because SJG has stopped viewing it as its primary product line quite some time ago.

I don't know anything intrinsic to sandbox play that ties it to encounters or the like and forbids purely session based advancement...