Thomas Shey's latest activity

It's one of my red flags of kickstarter project backing.

The problem is that they don't seem to find any other stakes as important as character survival, so its not clear even if every combat...

I don't know, I think you might be on to something. I mean, I'm in the GM seat FAR more often then I play. I also play (and GM) in an...

I don't think its from being a Forever GM; I'm a Forever GM, but as you might gather, I'm as or more attached to the context and events...

I was thinking that myself, but wanted to avoid going there because a lot of people consider pawn/token play a degenerate play-style in...

And, you know, just sell the dice separately.

Oh god, this sort of thing SO MUCH. I hate it when I see an RPG Kickstarter with a long list of badges, bookmarks, miniatures, dice...

Yeah. You sometimes get problems with printing and/or shipping in physical products anyway, but the more physical add-ons that are with...

Why can't combats meaningfully affect the story even if you just get captured? Like I genuinely don't understand how or why that is an...

All of these are still predicated on the assumption that: (1) If you're alive you can ALWAYS fix EVERYTHING wrong (2) No consequences...

A lot of investigative horror games, honestly. In the majority of them there's no question that combat is frequently a failure state...

Eh, to be fair, that's only true if combat or other high-risk activities are a focus of the game. That's common, but not universal...

Or the most thoroughly depressing. But in any case, that'st he point: losing those matters. But again, this is only an issue if the...

See how it is on 5 years.

I'll just note again I never saw that much time taken in PF2e, and I played two campaigns up to 20th level (including one with hybrid...