Recent content by Thomas Shey

I could easily have had Savage Worlds, Hero and GURPS if I'd let myself (as it was, I think I just subbed in 2D20 for GURPS...)

Take care.

Well, the third one I care about is Pathfinder 2e, so in some ways I consider them as different spots on the same line (though there are some individual things each does separately that I consider to have their own virtues).

That sounds like second edition. There's a reason TriTac games are one of the commonest ones to be run with other systems--clever conceits and sometimes good world building, but my gods the system... You can argue that Witchcraft isn't a horror game proper, but that's because pretty much all...

I just realized I had to resist picking "Generic/Universal Systems Numbers One, Two and Three."

Notably, 13th Age is the only D&D-adjacent I've run in a decade, and one of the only two others I'd consider was Shadow of the Weird Wizard (its a little less dark than its predecessor).

This is one of those things that can vary immensely. I've seen the sentiment before, but I've had people I've known for decades who I not only met through gaming, I don't really have any contact with outside it. We'll chat about things before the game, but barring occasionally going out to...

Personally, I suspect you could have removed "poorly-known" from that and still been more right than not. One of the things that makes psychology such a difficult discipline is there are so many moving parts.

I've probably got some somewhere, too. I know I've got printer paper even though our printer hasn't been used in literally years (maybe as long as a decade).

Yeah, in some fields of science or scholarship the pool of people is--not large.

I don't think its just either. You can put your thumb on the scale by watching for certain traits and trying to help people lose bad ones, but you don't have an infinite number of options, and various things can narrow the ones you have, so there's some random elements that you may just not be...

Hard row to hoe.

While primarily designed for people with certain sorts of physical ailments, it can be repurposed pretty well for strong introverts, too (of course part of that may be because one of is is probably mildly autistic and the other likely has some degree of undiagnosed ADD/OCD too.)

Just a note that in some respects all three editions were pretty different in the kind of experience they provided, even if they had similar premises.

Yeah, honestly I think Chill 3e is an excellent game in many ways, but I can't in good conscience recommend it any more without at least letting people know about the problems with the authors.