Thomas Shey's latest activity

There's a lot I can call "more modern" than others, but "modern" without a qualifier is not terribly useful. Yeah, its a matter of...

In the game, everyone. Everyone gets a Force Point or two, and prior to the whole mandicloreans business, there was nothing to suggest...

What I'm saying is that there are settings where they absolutely should be reflected, and that's true whether you like them or not. You...

Note a lot of the Force point usage is done by people not Force sensetive, so its frequency should probably be pretty uncommon--which it...

Yeah, but that's like getting fussy about them being gamist. Its absolutely true, but it puts an awful lot of things off the plate that...

To a degree, but that's just a demo that there are matters of degree involved. Some metacurrencies are all the way over to the...

I'm told that's not uncommon with Newfies.

Met a super cute big floofy boi today at the Farmer’s Market. Half Newfoundland, half Border Collie. Imagine a Newfie made of cookies &...

Not so sure. Its not clear to what extent that should be a finite resource within the setting. It strikes me as more likely a game...

I think resources not spent within the actual play of a game, rather than in advancement largely broadens the term to uselessness. (Of...

I think that term mostly postdates that period.

There is a recent thread on Force Points in SW d6. That's definitely a metacurrency that has one foot on the player resource side, and...

I was in a car that was in the next lane over when a wrongway driver was going down the fast lane on the freeway the wrong way once...

As a driver, I’ve encountered at least 3 wrong-way drivers on the streets (not counting parking lots), as well as a few as a pedestrian.

Yeah, but you're super-purist for simulation Micah. You gotta admit that's going to color your view on it.