Recent content by Thomas Shey

I realize I'm an unusual case, but I can't imagine getting enough gaming time in on weeknights while getting to bed at a decent hour with any regularity.

Yeah, but my point was "I don't want to game because I want to party instead" is, well, not exactly an indication the game is any kind of priority.

You saved me the trouble of making the same two points.

Though one can always question with some results like that whether the truth is that some of the people just really don't want to play that much. I realize previous committments are a thing, especially when you have families, but I find the "no Fridays" kind of telling.

Broadly. They're games that are aiming at a broad Big-Two-and-similar style experience. While you find offshoots within those that are more idiosyncratic, you can make some general expectations as to what a typical superhero experience will look like (especially in team books).

How do you read games that have a genre/style focus, but not an exceptionally strong play methodology focus? Chill 3e is very much intended for structured supernatural hunting, and is really not set up for anything else (the skill list makes this very clear) but the actual play style within it...

I think that's a little unfair. Words have connotational meanings even when they are used as terms of art. I don't think "opinionated" is an extremely strong case there, but there is connotational loading there and you can't entirely get away from that in general discussion even when the...

I'm in the process of more thoroughly reading Curseborn, so I'll check on both of these when I get to the combat chapter.

As I've noted, I've played in a context where the latter was true (superheroes rather than fantasy, but the principal wouldn't be radically different). As I said, it had some virtues, and when it went well was golden, but I think was waaaay too dependent on the whole on people being on the same...

Ah, was someone I'm not seeing so I was missing context.

I gather you don't consider a significant difference between those two?

"Think" I don't necessarily agree with, but almost any game with psychological limitations as part of character construction can control how you act under some circumstances. You've bought into that by taking them, but sometimes its pretty unattractive not to have a couple at least.

Eh. As a word for monster-hunters, created in some cases by really old individuals, I've seen a lot worse.

The Wold Newton stuff is at least amusing. I saw some attempt to extend it into the future to engulf some of E.E. Smiths characters at one point.

Well, even though not perfectl, fora have some structural advantages over FB groups or Discords, at least with larger numbers of participants.