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We have a rehomed jack russell terror in our house. Having a dog around is something that'll take some getting used to. Taking the dog...

I've never been caught particularly hard by anime or manga. Past that, generically I tend to react badly to deconstructions, even when...

So, this thread popped back up in my watch list, so, I figured I'd take a look. And, lo and behold, just a few short posts below my...

Well, that's probably present in 75% or more of games with mages in them, as the same people who will want complex and detailed magic...

Yes this. I'm not going to name names but there are a couple of FitD and PtbA games that have really cool concepts and a some good rules...

Yeah exactly. There are so many games which have complexity in completely the wrong places. Often it's not even subjectively wrong as in...

Though, honestly, the cases where that's true sometimes make the problem worse because people will sometimes want to, but never get used...

Well, as I note above, the line between vampires and zombies as we now use the term is not historically that thick.

There's certainly a messy line between them, same as there is between what we tend to now think of as zombies and vampires.

Then we only have a disagreement about terms. I think the average person who has been both a GM and a player would design a better game...

PF2 has lots of monsters who lose a lot of power if they lose one action. Many have two-action attacks, or a one-action attack with a...

I definitely think subsystems for very specific situations, ones which can produce interesting and story/setting-relevant results are a...

Its basically the fantasy version of some of the medical services you see in Shadowrun and Cyberpunk.

Though that only works because the penalty applies to all actions. If you only penalize successive actions it creates an incentive to...