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Been getting a lot of of abrupt error pages indicating "This site can't provide a secure connection" followed by "starprize.za.com sent... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.Hey, has anyone been getting some odd error messages from this thread (and only this one)? I'd gotten the impression it was indicating...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General [rant]The conservatism of D&D fans is exhausting..And here's the problem; even if individuals sometimes don't think things through as well as they could, this assumes the group as a...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.Well, gestures (which that is) are one of those things that are in their way, as varied as language.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pathfinder 2E I played my first PF2e game this week. Here's why I'm less inclined to play again..I'm not sure I believe that's true with regular archers, and I think it requires a particular look at things to even believe it with...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Paragon Lost's post in the thread GURPS Fantasy / Dungeon Fantasy (and beyond) with
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Ok, now that's gonna drive me crazy. I seem to recall a few war/board games from the 1970s that made use of that type of map. I just... -
Thomas Shey reacted to Kichwas's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
Yeah I took almost 2 decades off from the hobby (2005-2022) and that leads me having to put caveats around a lot of things. Which I...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Arilyn's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
Late 90s games are very different from now. A tip: The vast majority of game designers run and read a wide variety of games. The more...
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Thomas Shey reacted to chuckdee's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
With just this statement (leaving off the part about swearing off other systems), I don't even see how you can form an opinion after so...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Kichwas's post in the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs. with Like.
Yeah. In consider Mist engine rules light because the "rules" fits on a 2 page spread that is half art. There's a several hundred page...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Different philosophies concerning Rules Heavy and Rule Light RPGs..Well, as I might have implied, I consider the Hero System in many ways simpler than a number of editions of D&D because everything is...
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Not really saying it’s a bad thing. I’m just saying that the extremely high expectations for production value are driving the increase...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What's Your Price Limit?.Well, me too far as that goes, but I'll note there are a fair number of people out there who still seem to dislike PDFs, so...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What's Your Price Limit?.I think the point is, you can't expect high quality art, paper and covers and then expect game books to not be relatively pricey. And...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Jacob Lewis's post in the thread D&D General Self-Defeating Rules in D&D with Like.
I don’t think we can really know what the designers’ intent was at the outset. All we can do is look back at the rules as they were...