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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General How Do I Help Mentor a GM Making Rookie Mistakes?.Its a person running LevelUp who apparently wants something different, I'd guess because its as close to what they want as they could... -
Thomas Shey replied to the thread Sell me on Savage Worlds.I suspect that's another problem with using SW for supers in a lot of cases; you're either fighting a single well defended enemy (and...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Sell me on Savage Worlds.Though that should only be a problem if the weapons choices and the Toughness numbers are way out of sync routinely (if the dice just...
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This got me thinking of implementing 13th Age's rising ToHit bonus somehow next time I run a SW game. Maybe after each whiff you get an...
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Based on a post I saw on reddit, the author removed his products from sale because of the Shane controversy from a couple of weeks ago.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread What System(s) Should I Suggest?.That's at least a different take; its usually the handwavy nature of the non-mecha stuff (or just the dissonance between the two) that...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread D&D General The Great Railroad Thread.I think there can be a bit of a middle ground here. They're bus drivers. They still have a route they need to follow (to various...
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The relative success of WotC and Paizo selling story path modules, and the number of DMs who run games that either use those modules...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Post Apocalypse Settings.Well, I still think its post-apocalyptic--one of the classics of the genre, Hiero's Journey was probably at least that far down, and...
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A sizable percentage of players want the DM to tell the story and for their role to be sit back and occasionally participate. The...
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Pre-written adventure paths certainly do this, yes. But so does making the GM the absolute arbiter of absolutely everything. Telling... -
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What I think might encourage some railroading in D&D is the reliance on published adventure paths. A lot of people run these. And these...
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Yes. I'm actually running Daggerheart with another group currently. I really like it. I'm concerned that it might go too narrative for...
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This is one of those games I really want to get and run, but I fear it’d go badly since I know I’m the only mecha/Kaiju nut in my gaming...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Post Apocalypse Settings.Depends how far back the apocalypse was. A lot of SF and fantasy settings have an apocalypse in their background, but its far enough...