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Thomas Shey reacted to Retreater's post in the thread Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead' with
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For me, I think the golden era is still going strong. There are many varieties of games. Heck, even I am finding new systems I like... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread What makes a successful superhero game? with Like.
Simply throwing big points into SPEED would be a pretty good way to model certain speedsters. You know, the ones who might be able to...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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FWIW, I thought I’d share a picture of the guitar I mentioned. It’s a Reverend Flatroc 15th Anniversary Limited Edition. The original... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.Yeah, as I referenced earlier, you saw a lot of this with representing speedsters; the simple, stupid and over-expensive way to do some...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread What makes a successful superhero game? with Like.
I remember a long-ago thread on maybe Shadowland.org or something (so like, probably 1997 or something) where people had to try and make...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What are your thoughts on TTRPGs with non-standard dice?.Well, it doesn't help that some people are simultaneously critical of D&D, but really vague about what parts they don't like and whether...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Ruin Explorer's post in the thread Does Anyone Care? (Cosmere RPG) with Like.
Yes that's true. I mean, I know executives coming and going has also factored into major decisions re: cancelling and commissioning and...
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Thomas Shey reacted to payn's post in the thread What are your thoughts on TTRPGs with non-standard dice? with Like.
How folks come to frame things generally and culturally is interesting. I play some wargames alongside my RPGs in my gaming hobby. I've...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.There's always been a tendency with NPC writeups to just write down whatever and ignore perfectly functional build constructs that any...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.Yup; in M&M, you also ran into some of the ways some offensive abilities interacted with Hero Points and GM Fiat. In practice after...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.This is all a fair argument; a lot of it will depend on what you think he needs in the way of Talents (if any) and how much you tie up...
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Thomas Shey reacted to SteveC's post in the thread Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead' with Like.
This is so true. I don't think there have been this many super interesting game releases since back in the 80s. I can't remember when...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Does Anyone Care? (Cosmere RPG).One has to remember Netflix has a very specific metric about continuing a show (other streamers may sometimes do something similar, but...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.I'm afraid I just don't see it that way, and I've certainly known a lot of comics fans that don't. I don't know this part of this...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Staffan's post in the thread What are your thoughts on TTRPGs with non-standard dice? with Like.
It would be very difficult to generate the two-dimensional results of Genesys (with success/failure and good/bad side effects...