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  1. WhimsyTheFae

    2014 ENnie Awards Dream Date Auctions - Gen Con 2014

    Our next Dream Date Auction for the 2014 ENnie Awards is now live! Click the link below to bid for the opportunity to schmooze with Will Hindmarch and Jeff Tidball of Gameplaywright before and during the ceremony. In addition, both companies are offering wonderful gifts to the winners. ENnies...
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    2014 ENnie Awards Dream Date Auctions - Gen Con 2014

    I must confess that outside of the big social media sites, I haven't done the best job of spreading the word regarding the 2014 ENnie Awards Dream Date Auctions. The dream date auctions are held to raise funds which help us continue to operate, as well as to give fans an opportunity to hang out...
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    The Quest for the "One True System" Is It a Myth or Something More?

    I found mine and couldn't be happier!
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    Dragon aesthetics

    Out of those pictures, the first is my favorite, by far. The second is a distant second and the rest don't place at all for me.
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    Reading RPG PDF on a tablet

    In looking a bit further at it, Documents might allow you to access your computer. I still need to test it, but it looks promising. It's also free, so isn't really a risk.
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    Reading RPG PDF on a tablet

    Yeah, I think you might be right. If I find out differently (assuming I remember to check into it), though, I shall post about it.
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    Reading RPG PDF on a tablet

    I have never used it, nor do I know if it would do what the OP wants, but I noticed this in the help text for using a Wi-Fi Drive in the Documents application:
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    Reading RPG PDF on a tablet

    I have been using Documents by Readdle on my iPhone and iPad for my PDF needs. I can store them on Google Drive and/or Dropbox and access those cloud locations from the application, too. Overall, I have been satisfied with it.
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    Best (but simple) Superhero Game out?

    The mechanical impact is limited to an invokes (some flavor of +2 in your favor OR a reroll) AND compels (influence a decision OR initiate an event) based the applicability of the Aspect to the goal of the invoke or compel. All other assumptions of the Aspect are narrative, so long as the group...
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    Best (but simple) Superhero Game out?

    As per Fate Core (and by extension Fate Accelerated), Bagpuss is correct. Aspects are, by definition, true. I never actually played prior versions of Fate, but I was under the same impression as you, Umbran, when I first got FAE. When I came across that revelation in the rules, I was very...
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    Tell me about Savage Worlds

    I doubt that any disrespect was meant, Russ. While I no longer follow SW, I spent enough time with the game and interacting with other fans to have seen this advice given many times. The fact that it's been given multiple times in this thread tells me that the loyal Savages saw the thread title...
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    Tell me about Savage Worlds

    War of the Dead is a better example of a Savage Worlds adventure path than a Plot Point.
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    Tell me about Savage Worlds

    In a nutshell, yes, it's analogous to an adventure path.
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    Tell me about Savage Worlds

    Edges and Hindrances can modify initiative. Drawing a Joker is awesome. That's all I have, as my tastes no longer favor Savage Worlds.
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    How commonly is the GM actually the ultimate arbiter?

    So much more succinct than my own ramblings, Danny. That is close to my situation, with the understanding that I mean it in a literal sense, without assumptions, motives or hypotheticals attached.
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    How commonly is the GM actually the ultimate arbiter?

    Agreed. I guess that the simple answer is that the GM has always had this authority within the games in which I've partaken but has never abused it and has rarely made a unilateral decision due to it (exceptions would include rules adjudication where the GM is very confident in his/her...
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    How commonly is the GM actually the ultimate arbiter?

    In the game, my GMs and I (when I'm the GM) are always the final arbiter, but rarely the only arbiter. I've never gamed with the power-mad stereotype, but have gamed with a number of regular GMs and one-shot GMs (I've done both as well) who have all held the authority of final arbiter in the...
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    Racism in RPGs, especially related to fantastic races

    I have some diversity in my gaming groups, but am perfectly fine with portraying imaginary races in a negative light, so long as it is being done to provide recognizable hero-fodder and not as a veiled statement regarding a real-world culture, gender or sexual orientation.
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    numerera GM intrusions: help me get it

    I think that, after seeing how intrusions work, I prefer Fate's version of using compels. I don't dislike intrusions, if course, but just prefer compels.
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    Sexism in Table-Top Gaming: My Thoughts On It, and What We Can Do About It

    I believe that it reflects human psychology very accurately. Humans have always had the ability to nonchalantly hate and ridicule and attack any group that they can "dehumanize" or otherwise rationalize as being "evil".
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