Thomas Shey's latest activity
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1) Telling us somebody is wrong. Being wrong is not against the rules. 2) Making snide remarks at moderators. 3) Replying to somebody... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread TSR Why would anyone WANT to play 1e? with
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Lethality was one of those things that saw a lot of the house rules. If you didn't play with henchmen (or large parties in general)... -
I think this varied significantly group to group. I never had henchmen in the 1e or Basic games I played in or ran. Every 1e and Basic...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Modiphius 2d20 Advice.As I recall John Carter is the simplest of those (I don't think I have that one, though I do have Conan, Fallout and Star Trek which all...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Reynard's post in the thread Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model with Like.
Which other publishers? Paizo is selling rulebooks for $65, which appears to be the same price for the newest Kobold Press stuff. Monte...
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Thomas Shey reacted to payn's post in the thread Paizo Ends Pathfinder Adventure Path Softcovers, Switching to Quarterly Model with Like.
Folks often look at one lump sum and figure that the limit without any context. The starter set was a good one with people balking that...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread D&D General D&D is now Steampunk (poll) with Like.
Others have discussed the appropriateness of the term steampunk. Others have discussed medieval. I am going to address the 'no longer'...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread GURPS Fantasy / Dungeon Fantasy (and beyond).I don't think I'd read that as requiring separate skills, however. At most it says if you're in an environment where you're exposed to...
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Thomas Shey reacted to hawkeyefan's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
Sure, but I think we can focus on what you offered in the examples and don’t really have to worry about a broad application oftbe term...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.They're far more than just that, and if you're charging for the privilege, I even more conclude the players should have some input if...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.Yeah. I reserve on-the-fly changes for absolute emergencies, and late-in-the-day houserules for things that just didn't show their...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Crimson Longinus's post in the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread with Like.
This is why I endeavour to have my houserules determined before the campaign begins, so that I can tell them to the players and they can...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread GURPS Fantasy / Dungeon Fantasy (and beyond).Is that new as of 4e (because I ran two campaigns of it with 3e years ago and don't recall the manditory specialties at all; I might...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.The only problem you run into with that approach in Hero is its typically discouraged embedding Multipowers in Multiforms, and doing it...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What makes a successful superhero game?.Actually, these days it does. I'd argue its underfed though. There was a set of natural disaster rules in one of the supplements for...