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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?.Huh. Don't think I ever saw the Book of Exploration back in my ED 1e days. Or is that a reprint of some kind? -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?.Couple of days ago picked up the Bundle of Holding containing Ironsworn and its associated books; already had Ironsworn but 15 bucks for...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.Yeah, the "Aunt May clobbers Doc Ock" problem in DCH was brought up years ago. Yes, its there if you consider that a problem, but as...
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Thomas Shey reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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I can't stand people like that. It's why I'm so glad that Hero System 6th Edition is so good -- it's objectively better than all the... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.You're conflating the people who talk about things online with the gaming populace as a whole. This is a categorical error. The people...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Or even if that's not avowedly their purpose, they're there to swing swords/sling spells and do funny voices, and putting much effort...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.I think this is an extremely optimistic view of an at least significant part of the RPG playing populace. There are large parts that...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Ben Riggs: 'The Golden Age of TTRPGs is Dead'.Without commenting on some of the other issues, I do have say assuming any modern publicly traded company is even thinking three years...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.The question is, in how many games does being exactly the same power level matter? It might be preferred but those are not the same...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Ryujin's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with
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Oddly enough, three of my past employers no longer exist and my manager manager at a 4th, that stopped producing and selling computers... -
I’d agree. To use MSH rules, the O5 probably had something like the following powers and abilities when they first appeared: Stats TY...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.The problem is that fairly minimalist opponents were in some ways the worst against these, and those are normally the ones they're...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread What makes a successful superhero game? with Like.
I generally agree with your supercladistics*, with minor quibbles & observations. 1) it should be noted that some groups belong to more...
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There are severa kinds of Team comics I've seen... Fantastic Four, X-Men, TMNT: Most of the cast is stable long term, some changes at...
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SIGH This thread is whetting my appetite for playing in a supers game again. I haven’t been on the player side of a GM screen in a...