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The key difference is that virtually every time a narrativist viewpoint (or game that has one) comes up, a bunch of people rush to say how much they disagree with it, even if that's totally irrelevant and adds nothing at all to the conversation. That doesn't typically occur with gamist or even...

I don't think anyone goes "yum" about psionics getting called "magic" except people who genuinely don't like psionics, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. Personally I don't have a huge problem with that term being used*, but I do think the clunky slot-based nature of spells in D&D...

That said, it's the least-dreadful "Just a spellcaster" version of the Psion by some margin, at least of the ones I've seen, and that very much includes "hacks" people have made. It's not on-par with either the earlier 5E Psions, nor most 3PP "proper" Psions though. Given I don't think 5E...

Last I played, Gloomhaven's tutorial was, hilariously, more challenging than the mid-to-late levels of most squad-level strategy games. If you're used to the board game you may well be fine, but good god, when I played it a few weeks after release, having at that time never played...

Only in the sense that DS9 felt complete enough that it doesn't kind of require a continuation. I'm not sure there was much "demand" for "the further adventures of Picard" before Picard either, indeed, I'm not sure there was that much demand for the first two seasons of Picard at all! I do...

LOL come on. Think about it. You basically just said: "Only the droids that get significant screen time seem to have free will". The same thing applies to the human characters - only the ones with significant screen time can we see the decision-making the shows free will! I don't agree it's...

Unproven assumption. Not much more so say, but that's what that is. Unless you're counting the vast droid armies destroyed in Episode 1-3, but then the clones also behave like they don't have free will, all throwing themselves straight into the meat-grinder. We don't see any clones do any...

To me the Sovereign class looks by far the most dated, which is funny given it's technically the most recent. I think all the other ones fit into a sort of design language of their own, which is quite unique and specific (right from the get-go), but the Sovereign looks like a 50/50 mixture of...

I take it you're including yourself in "everyone" here?

LOL says a human. Magical thinking again.

No. You're engaging in absolute magical thinking. "Droids can be influenced, humans can't!" is ridiculous. Especially as it's now canon that droids CANNOT just be programmed to vote a specific way. The whole point of the recent the episode was that they're not just robots in the sense we have...

You can't trust most humans to do that, and I'm entirely serious when I say that. So I'm not sure what your point is.

To be clear, none of my assessments re: monsters are to do with "encounter balance". On the contrary they're using the metrics that Daggerheart itself explicitly describes re: setting goals for monster roles.

It's not a screenshot, it's just being turned into a live display by the forum - I just entered the link. But the link directly is here.

Might want to re-read what you quoted.

I would tend to concur. They're useful as examples and for mining for ideas, and I appreciate that they took time to describe all the monster roles and design principles and goals, but I think the actual designs are highly variable in quality, both in terms of how the mechanics work, and whether...

I feel like at some point people need to accept they're being a bit precious and ridiculous. With MtG cards, because some of them have significant monetary value, and they're trading cards, it makes sense to be a little precious, especially as value might not emerge for years, and the...

Yeah there's no reason Domain cards would be shuffled or moved around constantly. You have up to 5 at a time and it costs Stress to change them out outside of rests, so won't be done all that often. I think it's more that a lot of long-time MtG players (big crossover with TTRPG players) just...

I sometimes miss raiding a bit, and I definitely miss being part of a nice guild (they seem to be basically impossible to find - it's all either massive do-nothing invite-everyone guilds, or very sweaty stuff where people get mad as hell if you can't do 4+ hours/night three days a week...

Someone on Reddit crunched the numbers for us: Probably worth making a copy because my long experience with Google sheets is that they inexplicably vanish at the worst possible times! One thing I'm interested to see when I run it is just how easy/hard it is for monsters to die - it really...