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Eh. As long as you've got somewhat consistent optimization its not that hard once you get used to what it needs. You may not like the...

The irony is, even though I doubt I'll ever use any of them, I own kind of a silly number of Storypath games including all the "They...

Rich wanted Trinity and Scion to have the same core mechanics, but both games were in development at the same time, and Trinity had...

Not the weirdest simulator game I've seen by a fair bit.

I think there's some pretty big differences between being under management that understands what you do, and management that doesn't...

Tangentially, that’s sort of the beauty of HERO.

Nope! I think they're just jerks.

Well, that's the other problem, when you end up under management you really, really don't want to be under.

Do they have a separate budget? If so, that's all that's needed.

Yeah. Scion 2e has a couple fixes for this (one I like better than the other), but to some degree it still exists (a character with...

Though even within that, there are issues of what lifting the complexity is doing, and if it had to be that way to get the job done in...

Or, if we want to, I dunno, be more gracious in our reading, it suggests that their experience without it has had many boring bits...

Were they in a different department? Because the truth is, there's usually a lot of perverse incentives for people in different...

As others have said, it can also be problematic when trying to challenge the party properly. Using too much, challenging the optimized...

I normally disliked doing this, but one of the things I was virtually forced to do when running Scion 1e was to be very picky what...