Recent content by Umbran

Not reading the thread, as I am not up-to-date on episodes, and want to avoid spoilers, but I want to jot down an idea in relation to the Betazoids of this time period.

So, there's a difference between what the gods actually do, and what people think they do. I prefer my fictional religions to still require faith - so I usually don't have deities taking giant avatars and walking along on the surface of the world, or mortals going to see them, and coming back...

So, playing the game before playing the game? Why wouldn't I want to just play the game? Again, that's a serious question. You are asking for a subsystem that creates the character and does the stuff you'd expect to do in play. Why have a separate subsystem for that?

Not to be glib, but... that sounds like just playing the game.

It isn't like I have an auditor check my work, or anything. I do not find purity of sufficient value to concern myself about it.

Yep. Unfortunately, these games are out of print at this point, as they were licensed properties. Margaret Weis Productions tended to focus on such, for some reason. Leverage is an excellent example of Cortex at it basics. And, you know, heists are great. Marvel Heroic Roleplaying is a...

I haven't seen Sinners yet. My wife has, and she liked the film, and she has less gore tolerance than I do, so I'd probably be fine with it.

Yeah. In the formulation I've mentioned, it would be "Racism = Bias + Power". Where the bias might be hatred, or could be other things. I can see that. As a straight, monogamous, cis, white male, though, I'm okay with the framing that my privilege creates an asymmetry. There will be people...

Refuse? Not much. There's a few specific authors/creators I choose to not give my money to. I generally don't bother with slasher flicks, or other highly gory horror.

I am sure there are. I am not one of them - I'm not currently using Cortex for anything. The current campaign I'm running for my regular group is SWADE - Deadlands: Lost Colony. And that seems to be working well. I can see the appeal. But I also wouldn't use it for Trek. No, I wanted to...

My thoughts on Modiphius' 2d20 system are.. a solid, "Meh." I don't hate it, but it doesn't do anything for me, either. Star Trek Adventures mostly made me want to do a Cortex Prime version of Trek. But, my players aren't big on games based on media properties, so there's not a lot of point...

Yeah. This language isn't shared by everybody - I don't use it consistently myself. But it is useful to know, so when you do run into it, you can recognize it and not be lost.

Mod note: Hey. Dislike whatever you want. But insultingly bundle all the folks who disagree into a bundle so you can dismiss them all, and that's a problem. Stop treating things as if yours is the only valid opinion.

When the class divisions are so strongly supported by racist policy and history? No, not really. So, the language I suggested above kind of handles that. With that form, usually it is said that racism does require a power imbalance - it is looking at impact, rather than intent of...

I don't know if they are oddities. I think understanding comes to us unevenly.