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Are your players wandering around aimlessly just occasionally poking at things but otherwise doing nothing? Because I'm assuming that...

When I had plenty of spare time 30+ years ago, I spent a lot of time coming up with "realistic" patterns of social and intellectual...

Well, I did qualify it in my post for ones where death was on the table; in games where defeat but not death is a likely result (most...

I'm not actually sure I get this, but again, in games where there's less chipping away of hit points, I've never seen the time involved...

Just to be a weird old comic nerd, at one time the only one of those that was Kryptonian was, well, Krypto (heck, I think in recent...

Huh, I'd seen the Golden/Silver/Bronze/Iron progression used pretty consistently for a long time; it was after that that things seemed...

That was always my problem. As I put it when the X-Men slid into the Iron Age: "Wolverine is a perfectly valid character by himself...

Usually the reason is to set The Rules when important parts of the story are going to turn on How the FTL Works in some fashion (or...

To a large extent. And of course Wolverine-izing characters where it was incoherent.

Onyx Path also has a record of their products being "mostly done" by the time they start crowdfunding. Buyers don't have to wait so...

Yeah, I can't say I ever found RQ style combat excessively slow; as the above poster says, the limited number of hit points and...

OK, you're saying something weird and wrong about my job but A) I'm not going to decloak to correct you and B) you would try to tell me...

Edit: This was a side issue I probably shouldn't insert myself in.

I'd say that's because he's doing Bronze Age really, which was when it was transitioning to a more serious mode but hadn't lost all of...

I didn't say smarter- just very intelligent. Which given Lex's arrogance, lets him get around him on his playing field, which drives him...