Thomas Shey's latest activity

On a 6 point scale of 0: theatrical improv 1: Rules Light 2: Rules Medium Light 3: rules Medium 4: Rules Medium Heavy 5: Rules Heavy. 6...

As a creator myself, I like “steal” for much the reasons I like “elfgames”: it encourages a good perspective about the innately...

Taking it seriously as proper design is not required to use it as a rotating point for skilled play. Its not like being ad-hoc in...

I mean, honestly, this seems an odd argument. If you consider deriving your mechanics and concepts from other games immoral, that...

"Light on" does not mean "nonexistant" last time I looked.

Yeah, back in the day when Steve Perrin looked at an obviously RQ derived game and said it seems oddly familiar, my response was "Well...

Well, that's largely because the early Gygaxian D&D was pretty light on mechanics, especially outside of combat, in general.

It can be even more procounced with a two-gun user because the reload times are so awful; even with talents its hard to get it better...

Of course you are. You seem to think even collectively, the typical player group is less trustworthy to make house rules decisions than...

The difference is I don't have to badmouth most of the player populace to defend mine.

I saw a lot of hell sent downrange via Chain Lightning by our chronic sorcerer player. Its one of the reasons I tend to roll my eyes...

There are a few arcane spells that can be really punchy at their levels on a single target basis, but they aren't going to do those...

And there's still that crowd control thing. A mage can end up putting more damage downrange than any fighter ever will; they just end...

More like they are better at crowd-control than melee-focused builds, but I find that people with weapons typically are better at...

If your idea of "taking out half the opposition" is "clean up crew", I'd have to say that's a sign of "If I'm not the primary actor in...