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Thomas Shey replied to the thread How Complex Do You Prefer Your TTRPG Systems In General.See, I tend to not see complexity and excessive special-casing as the same thing, though I agree that the latter is much more of a... -
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I don’t have a complexity preference, I have a preference against unnecessary complexity. And IME, unnecessary complexity usually... -
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My tastes run to lighter games these days, so say, Shadowdark instead of 5E. There's also a difference for me between more complex games...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Where Complexity Belongs.Funny, combat is one of the last places I want a lot of simplicity, as it either reduces meaningful decision-making, or throws it all...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Deset Gled's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
There's an old joke that American isn't so much a country as it is a bunch of states in a trenchcoat pretending to be a country...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Mad_Jack's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
One of my feet turns out slightly farther than the other, and it has always given me problems with randomly losing my balance/kicking...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Micah Sweet's post in the thread What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)? with Like.
The new 23rd century sourcebook for Star Trek Adventures, and four 3pp Level Up supplements. Happy early birthday to me!
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Thomas Shey reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
I wish I could, but I’m the one who has to get Mom’s wheelchair in & out of the SUV…which is probably how I got the bruise I the first...
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Thomas Shey reacted to RealAlHazred's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
Man. I spent about four hours Monday shoveling; 3 in the morning to clear mine and my wife's car so I could get to work, and one when I...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.Well, I'm old now so when I took a fall at Knotts Halloween Haunt a few years back, I braced myself by falling on first my left hand and...
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.I bruised the living hell out of my left palm at one point a few years back (braking a fall (which only helped so much) and managing to...
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Thomas Shey reacted to Willie the Duck's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
re: obvious drive-by trolling/pot stirring -- we don't have to take the bait.
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Thomas Shey replied to the thread Let's Talk About Supers RPGs (Especially Ones Good For Cons).Define "dramatically". I personally thought replacing the attributes with just the modifiers saved a step in process since there was...
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I mean, we can say we ban it. But enforcing that ban? Around here, it would seem to me that'd be issuing a frelling challenge, and...
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It isn't stealing -- the training data WAS STOLEN. But how AI generates images (or text) doesn't really work like that. it isn't a...