Thomas Shey's latest activity

I can see the concerns about how he in some ways seems upstaged, power-wise, by others in this movie. OTOH I agree that challenges like...

Given they're usually the ones to decide how far away they want to be... (Not a fan of how publicly traded company culture has evolved...

As I recall--and its been many a year since I used it so I may be misremembering--that the Cool stat plus the special Solo (combatant...

It's not the playstyle. It's the claim that you made there and elsewhere: Either you perfectly trust the GM, never having even the...

I don't make it out as radical. I make it out as bad at least as often as not. I've explained why by now, if that doesn't seem valid...

It's completely possible to play any version of D&D without that. In no way does that mean you are "leaving D&D". Hell, I'd even argue...

See the title of this thread up there? Yeah, here's some of that right there.

You've definitely identified one of the most a corrosive attitudes running through society.

Well, I don't think there's any question there's a part of the hobby that really does prefer their rules a little of what I'd think of...

This is part of why I've limited my discussion to damage mechanics. Morale is, shall we say, a fraught discussion, and there's a reason...

I'd say early on I had a fair amount of play experiences I was not very fond of, but it was not because the GM or other players were...

This does, however, suggest to me an assumption that the tightness is a flaw. I don't think one can take that as a given; only time I...

There's a reason people are much happier if they can double-check history records with archeology, but sometimes that's just not...

Yes, but taking effort to correct the situation is a different thing than a self-correcting situation. It took one of the players to...

Yeah, barring a few outliers, I don't think what I'm talking about relates to game style at all per se.