Thomas Shey's latest activity

Well, no. Because you might be in a railroaded game and not realize it because you haven't made a "wrong" decision so far, or because...

I just saw this as well. Using the SRD and their own classes/subclasses, much like the first game. It will be cool to see the new Weapon...

Ok dude, whatever. You asked for some examples beyond others of how Fail Forward might work. I wasn't posting them for you to go "I hate...

People are responding as if the people who are taking exception to the fail forward example are trying to sell them on fail forward as...

That isn't a point of contention. Nobody thinks you actually secretly want to do it. The points of contention seem to be whether the...

I was using them as an example of a non-superhero setting where there are tiers of power as real things in the world of the fiction.

As I recall, there were incarnations of the Round Table where each knight seemed to have an individual superpower either by themselves...

Back home with my adjusted lenses. Reading is much better. The prism is not visible. (y)

Sure. Though I'd argue there are a lot of settings besides superhero-proper ones where there are distinct layers of power to be found.

I disagree completely. "Personness" is totally unrelated to mechanics.

Whether characters are exceptional has no bearing over whether they are recognizably people.

Like I said, depends on where you draw the line on "superhuman"; neither of those are particularly uncommon among some kinds of movie...

Sure, I'm commenting on an issue I had with the framing you both were using. Does it matter? If there's a factor that renders noise...

It matters a bit if we're talking about who counts as superhuman, and how people conflate them.

I stand corrected. My knowledge of the Shadow is limited.