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Fandoms would be great if it weren't for the corporations controlling the IP, capitalism, and the damn fans.

Yeah, I don't think Marvel has been quite that bad, but they clearly keep playing variations on the theme, too. And I'm not talking...

Statblocks work for generic opponents, but often they don't exist for more specialized ones (spellcasters for example). I made a lot of...

The former still exist. They may not be extremely well known, but Heroes and Hardships wasn't that long ago and had a successful enough...

I often ran that way in part in my younger days. Only in part though, because I've always been prone to using systems where ad-hoc...

In the games I run, potentially infinite wiggle room, as I never prepare scenes or encounters ahead of time, I improvise events in real...

Fair enough! :)

Far as that goes, in most strategy games I tend to find most realtime pretty much, well, stupid; when you're managing production or...

Yeah, I never was a big fan of what I called "twitch and flex" gaming even in my younger days. The only reason I found FO3 and on...

Well, they may also be assuming that there's more wiggle room within the plot in some linear adventures than with a true railroad, too...

Right, hopefully everyone is engaging in good faith and with the fun of the group in mind. If not, that's a different issue.

There are conversion tables to regular set of dice and phone rollers so its not so dependent. Though, the symbol thing drive me nuts.

Shows you the difference in people. Generally I consider realtime combat in a computer game a plague.

Though I'm not sure you can talk about the continuous run even with the Big Two in the last few decades given the frequent reboots...

Someone misunderstood something if they were treating an AK-47 as 5D Killing. That hasn't been true in any edition of Hero ever...