Recent content by Thomas Shey

There's a certain degree of "functionality will always lean into dry", but its hard to deny that GURPS seems to take that farther than most. Probably because it relates to the problem that clarity often works against ease of reading; in other words, you have it dead right that GURPS is, even by...

I'm positing that many, probably most GMs will not be good at keeping proper management of appropriate ammunition expenditure, probably among multiple people, in their heads. That's true of any number of supply things that may be relevant, and I don't think saying a GM will not probably handle...

Edit: Nor here other than showing my irritation.

Edit: You know, I've expressed my opinion here, I don't see any benefit to be had by belaboring it any more.

Use whatever excuse you like. That was an attempt to pick a fight and I'm not going to call it anything else. Veiled threats don't look any better.

Well, the honest answer is "Badly." Non-cursive first letter of each, name, cursive the rest (and I doubt I still remember how to do most other cursive letters, including capitals). I rarely bother with my middle initial. My printing is pretty bad (has been forever) and my handwriting was...

@aramis erak I think Storypath has evolved sufficiently far from Storyteller you have to consider it an additional (and now Onyx Path's main) system these days; its still a die pool system based on attribute + skill, but the way the output is handled is pretty radically different from how...

The snideness is not appreciated, and tells me any further conversation with you on this is undesirable. I absolutely do. Just like they absolutely get to ignore me if they wish.

Need? No. But I don't have any sign that they aren't routinely easier to adjust unless you happen to have another game system that is pretty close to what you need in the first place. And that's far from a given.

I know there's some people who consider it so, but I don't think Mythras really approaches a generic system. It far too strongly sticks to certain kinds of realistic and specific expressions, if anything more severely than GURPS does. It also is seriously lacking in a lot of tools as you get...

It still exists. Heroes and Hardships is a relatively recent example that came through Kickstarter a couple years ago. I do think true generic systems are less popular than they once were (in part because they do require some heavy lifting to properly apply, so they're only going to be really...

There can be matters of degree here. Hero has had a power system set up to be modified internally with Advantages and Limitations for a very long time that makes it a more useful tool than what exists in a lot of avowedly universal/generic systems (which have a tendency, though not, ah...

We simply disagree about the severity, then. A discussion that essentially negates the original question seems a pretty hard turn to me. I can see the argument there, but I'm still not sold "I don't like/believe in the premise of the original question in the opening post, so I'll do my best...

I'd argue that's more a tool-of-convenience issue; any halfway coherent system can be repurposed if you want to, but it very much can turn into hammering a nail with a wrench. 5e is particularly prone to this because the combination of familiarity and the publication benefits associated with...

Well, there are a couple of matters at hand here. 1. How "generic" 5e is as a system is very, very much in the eye of the beholder. As someone noted upthread, you can have serious questions how generic it is even in heroic fantasy, and the farther you get from that the more debateable it gets...