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I think it does apply, personally. Like a lot of droids, he's in every way an equal to a human in terms of sentience/sapience/free will, if you just remove the (often physical) objects preventing access to free will. He's absolutely a peer made into property by force. It's just that force was...

You know, I was thinking about that too, I should have mentioned it. I do wonder - I suspect it might have at least a bit higher "attempted to play it" ratio than is typical for these, because I think the very "game-ified"* way the magic works in virtually all Cosmere books people often have...

Yeah and I always find it pretty funny that 5E does that given that like, 2nd edition realized that was a problem and so started Dark Sun characters at L3, and indeed, post-Dark Sun, a lot of AD&D campaigns I played or ran in, we just started at 3rd. I guess one can do the same with 5E, but like...

The only thing I disagree with here is the bolded bit, I violently dislike that in every RPG where it's true (which does include 3E and 5E, but notably not 4E). Just start people with a more reasonable amount of HP and increase it less as they level up you absolute scoundrels! But TRADITION...

Yeah good point, though I will say, I don't think SW TTRPGs perform as well as one might expect them to given the practically 1:1 audience crossover and, as you say, the fact that the SW universe is one of the most "game-able" fictional universes, perhaps the most game-able one from a movie or...

Wow, that would have been really helpful. As was I was able to put together a decent Mass Effect setup, but god it required a lot of effort that I think could have been made a lot easier with more examples! It's a really pity that this just all seemed to slam to a halt.

It seems like most "Movie/TV IP merchandized" RPGs sell like absolute hot cakes then no-one actually plays them! Which I guess is kind of ideal for the people making them, because they can just keep churning them out! The only exception I can immediately think of is the Alien RPG, which seems to...

Basically same here. I have (rarely) changed rules out of the gate, but only where there were obvious issues, or where, on one notable occasion, I'd actually talked to the designer about the rules online and why they were they were they were, and he'd essentially "okay'd" my changes (not that I...

That is 100% not my personal experience. Like, my main group, they've played everything from Rolemaster to Cortex Plus, and they went directly from enjoying 4E D&D, which is perhaps the second-crunchiest edition of D&D after 3.XE, and the most gamist edition by far, to enjoying Dungeon World...

I've never felt so smug about essentially being called "cool" yet so insulted by the same in my life lol! But I mean I sort of agree - I definitely got most of that advice back then, but even if you got it, a lot of the advice from back then just wasn't very good! There were a lot of bad ideas...

< leaning forwards angrily over his table, talking in Estuary accent > I'll tell you what isn't good mate! That's bloody readability of the character sheet on Demiplane! That's what! Look at this: Argh my eyes! There's no like "Don't have violently clashing blurple and gold", there's no "day...

I'd argue it doesn't even mean that group "can't handle it" for it to get out of hand just once the first time it's tried. It just means a discussion needs to be had. The big issue I think here is really that we "worked out the kinks" of how to deal with other systems requiring good faith in...

We haven't made any new PCs yet, but the Habitual Goliath Player in my group (who basically has only played humans or goliaths since 4E came out, like, what, jesus 17 years) was seemingly quite offended (!!!) by the new goliath types, rather than pleased, because he thought of goliaths as their...

I pointed out that that post seems to be overstating things slightly. Almost all TTRPGs require considerable good faith, especially on the part of the DM, to not break down. The issue you're describing doesn't seem to be good faith, it seems to be "new and unfamiliar rules". With older rules...

I mean, it's possible I'm a little green man typing via hyperspace comms from three galaxies away, but it's not terribly likely. For this claim to be taken seriously, you'd need two things: 1) A proposed mechanism of action - i.e. how it "enhances the abilities of storytellers". 2) A least...

I think you're overstating it a bit. Just IMHO and all that. I'm not seeing any rules-rules (i.e. not mere suggestions) which mean this Daggerheart requires any more good faith than say, 80% of the RPGs on the market, arguably including 5E D&D. Am I missing something? I've seen a bit too much...

Yeah I felt like that a fairly major lore change, but I definitely liked it in that it raised a lot of questions in both directions, because even if there was complicity, even if he loves or w/e to kill then he (and probably most "smart" droids) is straightforwardly a slave.

Okay, but that's exactly the problem. Instead of you saying "Okay, they can have this one, I'll get them later!", and saving your chit to make things exciting later (like, say, by having a corporate attack drone wing come after them when they were getting away with the guy, or there be a major...