Thomas Shey's latest activity

..I was just going to reply to Mad Jack with a remark about handedness and how for some reason I'm lefty just for throwing frisbees...

Thank you. I was just thinking about ... you know, the noise. And felt a need to articulate how it was just everywhere, about which I...

You ever feel that there is this constant hum of loud background noise. It's there, and it's getting louder. And every night, you go to...

In the case of Pendragon, I suspect Stafford would view it that people who didn't want to engage with what he was doing fundamentally...

Notice the phrase "too strident" in what I posted. I can understand people who consider things like armor class or hit points the price...

Yeah, there are a lot of solutions to the "We're fighting things that would puree us" problem that don't involve inflating damage...

Its actually very similar to a method I usually recommend in its carrot-and-stick nature. Usually I'm talking about it in terms of...

Moving on from there being a conventional wisdom of what roleplaying games are and can be is an improvement from my perspective. Not...

The usual problem with that is whether the declared action is just autoresolved; otherwise all you do is move the problem back a bit...

Part of it is, of course, that when Trav was created, the mechanics were such that there was a very strong incentive not to let players...

Traveller's inability to distinguish routine (which teaches only slowly) from high stress/high activity environments is one of the many...

Not that a lot of these companies aren't trying to make that disappear, too.

I'm not sure I really have a pickup game any more (my RPG running in the last years has rotated through too many games for one to have...

They're still not morale checks, and as I said, the game itself says to limit how they're used in fantasy genres.

I can get that. I just think anyone who's willing to deal with D&D style hit points shouldn't get too strident talking about gamism as...