Thomas Shey's latest activity

I'm still a member of an active listserv. :p I can't help but feel like people claiming ENWorld and other forums aren't social media...

Odd. I don't even want most of what my first two big systems gave me any more.

Or, as far as that goes, mailing lists (and, yes, I was around for both).

I acknowledge you think so. Now you'll have to acknowledge I think they have considerable overlap in how they work in practice. I've...

While different flavors have differences, I think this ignores how much some of them overlap (particularly Discord and Reddit).

Indeed, AGE designers have said some of the stuff from Modern AGE and The Expanse AGE ended up Fantasy AGE 2e for that reason.

I haven't seen it in play so far, but I will say after a detailed read there were obviously some serious attempts to solve problems that...

I think the problem here is "believability" is a moving target, not only on the viewer, but on genre and setting. Things that might be...

I'd argue that once you've got D&D's highly specific magic system (even more specific pre-4e) and D&D's class and level structure you...

Taking advantage of the DTRPG sale (and my wife's early go-ahead as a Christmas present), picked up a bunch of the Earthdawn 4e books...

I've seen too many people who were disruptive in some ways, but also the people who drove the campaign, could be bothered to understand...

They're just going to keep hammering their particular take on this even though there's no sign most people in the industry share it.

I just want to state, for the record, that I don't believe there is anything controversial about my avatar. Pukunui is a chubby Māori...

Lots of "yes but I like that thing, so I don't want people to call it Social Media" energy going around here. ;)

And notably this is in the TTRPGs General Forum, which suggests the original poster was not assuming D&D would be the answer as a default.