Thomas Shey's latest activity

Well, I'll flat-out say that if I have to disrupt the character's probable choices to avoid a problem with the group or the campaign as...

Though there's a reason I still prefer the stick to the carrot; it shows some impact from the social usage while not commanding specific...

Maptool technically has one of those; its slightly more convenient than doing a direct connect so its usually what's used. I'm not sure...

Yeah, its largely not going to be visible from the outside; that's why I can slip from Author to IC fairly easily most of the time and...

You want slightly different things out of it than I do. That shouldn't be a surprise by now.

Yeah, but if you were running for me you'd have to deal with the fact sometimes I'm making decisions on what I think would be...

In fact, as I noted earlier, I played almost purely in that mode when MUSHing for quite some time many years ago. I just find that FTF...

To be clear, I was doing full inhabitation play 30 years ago; this isn't a case of people "not getting" what you're talking about. You...

As with many things, I don't assume anyone on either end of the table gets it right all the time.

I don't see how any of that is supposed to change my point here.

Usually I've seen the payoff as some kind of metacurrency rather than XP, but that's just a matter of degree depending on how the...

Just to be clear, I'm not so good at reading that on the Net, especially given that people try to have it both ways, that I make no...

You've never had a player (or yourself) go "oh, you know what? wow, that's hard to say exactly how CharName would take this. Let me roll...

Interesting premise. Doesn't mean I automatically buy it though, so here we are.

People who don't have as severe an attachment to it as you are are rather more prone to accepting a cookie to do something that may...