Recent content by Willie the Duck

Like Simulacrum and Simulacrum+Wish, Conjure Animals, and anything in 3e involving wizards in personal Demiplanes sending Ice Assassins at each other, the situation with Leodmund's Tiny Hut has come up exactly once per gaming group. In each case, it has followed some variation of the same...

And so is the cast. {ba-dum--tsh} (In all seriousness, kudos to the showrunners to committing to using traditional costuming/makeup to de-age the cast for flashbacks/time travel/whatever they need it for.)

No, not always. Again, broadly speaking. I certainly want my final copy of Stonetop to have solid 'successful harvest' rules (as that is quite reasonably going to be an important outcome in the expected setting). But I also want its 'fighting' and 'climbing sheer surfaces' and 'leaping...

I see we're at the Dwight-Schrute-impersonation level of pointless pedantry now.

Broadly speaking, it isn't. That was the point. We play games to have characters go on some kind of adventure, and thus build mechanics that play out (have success and failure rates) that work for adventures.

I brought that up in a previous post in the thread. Fate and the like are good at modelling 'dramatic' people or people on the most exciting days of their lives and showcase this with things like incentivizing people to fail at their personal weaknesses. GURPS looks like it models real people in...

Well, I don't think that of overgeeked, nor I think the other person I noted saying it here. However, yeah, it's beginning to take on connotations. Kinda like 'strawman' and the Latinate logical fallacies 20-odd years ago -- yeah, when it is used appropriately (as in, the person leveraging it is...

Unrelated to your specific person/behavior of frustration (to which you attach an actual point about their behavior), I fear that 'touch grass' is quickly becoming the next 'triggered,' 'edgelord,' or 'live in your parent's basement' (particularly the first). It's the kind of thing any side of a...

Pre-emptive note: I'm going to be leaning on 3e references, as that is what I have the most experience with. I think the primary logic is that one major reason why a person/group would pick up GURPS is that they were thinking of playing D&D or an OSR D&D, but one person in the group suggested...

I also remember an incident with the webcomic Sluggy Freelance (near the height of its popularity) where someone correctly guessed what would happen next, and, when it proceeded to come to pass as they predicted, accused the author of nicking their idea. From then on, the author only frequented...

Every time I'm tempted to do this, I rewatch the "don't touch my records" scene from Diner.

The actual amount of differences that between LBB OD&D plus Supp. I in 1975 and pre-Player's Options AD&D 2nd edition (1994-) is small enough that a DM houserule could dwarf them in impact. It's never been about specifics. BX get sthe focus because it covers the level range (1 through...

I don't think that most of this is serious calls for the game to be massively changed (they've already said they are changing so little that the page references won't change), so much as 'this is what I think they would need to change about GURPS to make it preferable to me.' I've certainly...