Recent content by Thomas Shey

With old enough houses, that kind of thing is not uncommon.

While I agree there's a difference between insulting people and insulting games, I think to assume the separation is complete there misunderstands human nature.

You may be misreading my statement. I don't think any of those systems proactively encourage "playing the GM". As I stated in my post, there are lighter systems that focus very much on "rulings not rules", and I'm firmly of the opininion that approach passively encourages playing the GM. As...

Okay, you meant it somewhat the opposite of what it seemed. But you've just explained how you can. Such systems tend to drop to at least some extent (some more than others) into accepting "rulings not rules" because their rules are too lightweight to handle any nuance internally, so GM...

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...