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A nice effect of FabU’s maths is that enemies don’t scale either - so a mob of 5th level monsters is still a threat when you’re 20th level and a group of 5th level (starting) PCs can generally take on a 20th level boss monster. The most important thing is action economy - whichever side has the...

Garbage is a bit harsh but the die mechanic isn’t great if you want scaling - in other words, if you want a significant difference between starting and experienced characters, which is a common trope in JRPGs and adjacent media (indeed, many characters from such media level up to level 100+...

It’s pretty clear they’re not severed, and Cobel at least is a devout Kier cultist in her private life.

And again I ask, why isn’t there a RPG?

One thing I’ve noticed is that the three unsevered Lumon employees whose job it is to monitor and manage the severed - Cobel, Graner, and Milchick - are interesting studies in ordinary oppressors and jailers. Their job is to discipline and control children, basically, because that’s what the...

Yeah, I’ve nicked a lot from FabU for other games such as my version of Sword World 2.5. The various classes are solid and inspirational. I’m not 100% happy with all of them - what the heck is the point of multi - but the flavour is pretty good. I’d give Cloudbreaker Alliance a look too - it’s...

Yes, you basically lose 8 hours from your day (not the commute). You get up, drive to work, get in the elevator, and then you’re in the elevator coming back up and you drive home. Mark, our bereaved protagonist, says that it helps him but I think it might also be unhelpful - you don’t have the...

FabU is a pretty great game and we’ve played it a fair bit. I’m not in love with the dice mechanic (it’s too flat and doesn’t scale well - it can be hard for some characters to ever roll 10, even if they’re high level) but the way character generation works is beautiful, the art is excellent and...

Exalted Star Wars idol concert.

FabU is well worth a read but I do think it’s a bit inconsistent in how all the Skills balance, and there’s very little scaling for stats/checks since you’re generally rolling two dice (your stats, rated d4-d12) and adding them, occasionally getting a bonus. So even quite experienced characters...

I’ve now read the downloadable pdfs of FF14 starters kit. It’s very sparse, isn’t it? I wasn’t expecting full character generation or anything but it’s quite light on rules and the example PCs have very little narrative detail. It’s definitely taking a lot of cues from D&D 5E but that’s hardly...

Currently reading Penric and the Shaman, the second in the Penric and Desdemona series by Lois McMaster Bujold. I’m a big fan of her World of the Five Gods books (why isn’t there a RPG?) and I recently re-read The Curse of Chalion and Paladin of Souls, which are both excellent. I’d really...

I quite like SW 2.5 (or the fan translation) and agree about the world-building, which is more substantial than in KonoSuba or FabU. I wasn’t sure about some of the mechanics, such as the damage mechanic or the way classes work (though like you I do like that they’re basically skill packages...

So, that thing with Helly just happened. That was pretty powerful. I really feel for Helly on her first day back - clearly her outie really hates her. Interesting they put warnings about that but not about, you know, head drilling.

First I’d heard of Eyes of Wakanda, and it’s going to have an Iron Fist (probably a previous one) in it? Interesting. Glad to see Wonder Man confirmed, too.

Is FF14 out yet? You’re quite right about Yeld, though it’s a slightly weird thing of its own, but it has a lot of JRPG tropes. I haven’t covered Console (ancient indeed) either, or Mazaki no Fantaji (or Anima Prime, which it closely resembles). There’s also Infinity’s Edge (which is more...

OK, I’ll just post our theories so far for the record: - Helly’s outie is a member of the Lumon family, a chief cultist, doing this to show how harmless and beneficial the process is. - Mark is being watched partly because of Petey but partly because there’s something iffy about the way he was...

Hi all, Recently* I’ve been on a kick to explore and consider TTRPGs aimed at games like Japanese console RPGs (JRPGs) like Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, Trails of Cold Steel, etc as well as adjacent genres such as isekai manga. *for the last year at least. This is quite a growing genre in...

We’ve had Apple TV (it came free for a month with theatre tickets and we’ve decided to continue with it) for a while and so far there have been some very good Apple Original series such as Ted Lasso and The Afterparty. Severance is a different beast from those two, altogether less amusing and...

Assuming you mean Transformers One, it seems to be very much in its own continuity (like every other Transformers thing) and is actually pretty good. It starts with Orion Pax and D-16 as best friends and watch them develop into Optimus Prime and Megatron (that isn’t a spoiler, it’s pretty...