Recent content by Thomas Shey

Yeah, that sounds right; I used to occasionally go to the one near us right before COVID as an excuse to eat a lot of meat (my preferred way to do that are Brazilian BBQs, but there's none particularly close).

I'm kind of a big fan of country fried steak, so that'd have had me going "Really?" (Not that I eat it often because that's just what my diet needs, but its still probably my go-to comfort dish).

You still need to do something about post-combat healing and effects.

I'd probably call a number of those overly casual unless the GM was signaling pretty strongly too.

Give me a break. Its the fact I'm trad leaning myself pretty heavily why I have an issue with it. I don't consider the fact that propagated into the expectations in other trad games at all a virtue, and while I might not play much simulationist any more, I defy you to look at much of what I've...

I should have quoted his whole post, but including "Borders on not making it D&D"? Yeah, kind of .

Though, honestly, somehow those of us playing RuneQuest and derivatives have managed to get used to separate Parry/Dodge rolls which sometimes take precedent over the attack roll over the years without getting soggy about it. There are occasionally some problems with high skill opponents...

I thought not, but like I said, its been quite a long time. Only reason I remembered any of this was at one point I hyrbidized either CP2013 or 2020 together with Mekton (whichever the version was the just predated Zeta) for a post-apocalyptic mecha-enclaves game I ran many years ago. But the...

Though I've got to say it probably requires the GM being awfully--casual--in how he sets things up, barring using the original OD&D outdoor encounter tables (and if he is, without thought, he's at least not looked at the implications of doing that).

Though, does Ultra Man ever speak in the whole movie?

Well, it doesn't help that it isn't in any way consistent across different takes. The Man of Tomorrow take you've seen in some cases, including a lot of the Silver Age that was absolutely true (Kal was shown doing science in the Fortress on occasion, and was even referred to as having...

Given they're usually the ones to decide how far away they want to be... (Not a fan of how publicly traded company culture has evolved as you might guess).

As I recall--and its been many a year since I used it so I may be misremembering--that the Cool stat plus the special Solo (combatant specialist background) skill was used to resist freezing in combat if you were wounded or certain other results happened. It wasn't sophisticated, but given how...

I don't make it out as radical. I make it out as bad at least as often as not. I've explained why by now, if that doesn't seem valid to you, it doesn't.

See the title of this thread up there? Yeah, here's some of that right there.