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Yeah, great monster idea, lousy PC race.

FATAL is one of those rare games that has nothing going for it. No interesting items or spells to yoink, no fun PC options, no decent world building to be inspired by. Absolutely nothing. It’s amazing how universally bad it is.

It’s not quite the same math unless you make heavy use of bonuses and penalties for the roll-under system. Because in D&D, the GM can set the DC low, no matter how bad your skill level is.

And as with most things, whether “It’s what my character would do” is bad or good depends on how it’s used and what it’s used for. Acting in-character is generally a good thing unless the player is using it as an excuse to be a jerk or worse. Likewise, following the world’s internal logic is a...

I am convinced it’s because we’re primed to think high numbers are better. Not just in RPGs, but in almost everything (except for bills, taxes, and golf).

That was entirely my point--some things can be expected to exist in a particular area. In this case, the area was a sickroom where a person had been left to recover, thus, jugs, cups, and bowls for water and cleaning wounds, jars for medicines and herbs, and so forth. Pemerton said that he (or...

Citations needed. Because I've talked about that quite a bit and never once said anyone was forced by the setting to make a decision, and I haven't seen anyone else say that either.

What do any of those things have to do with what Micah said? It doesn't matter what the ratio of players to GMs is. We know from the real world that minority groups can abuse majority groups if the minority groups are in power. You can game with a total stranger who is a great GM. You can...

Pretty much yup. I've been GMing a while, but even then seeing them codified helped me quite a bit.

Oh, sure. It's really what I meant--PC actions, NPC actions, and yes, even what's fun for everyone (especially if all else is equal); all those things are how most of us decide what's going to happen next in the world. It's just not how Hussar and some others are saying, that we believe this...

And again, nobody has said that the setting generates the results. What has been said is that they go with what the logical result of the PCs actions would be.

In some cases, the constraints help to focus the GM, allowing them to GM more effectively. An example would be in PbtA games, where "here's what you can do" and "here's when you can do it". Even though, when you actually read the GM's rules for a PbtA game, almost everything on the "GM Moves"...

Really? That really makes no sense to you? OK, lets look at the example from the original book: So in this case, Zird's player has used one of his aspects to justify something for his PC to know, based on an aspect he already has. You can't see that this is miles away from making a player...

Yep. Because after reading all of your posts, you jump between total trust and "OMG, they had trust you for MONTHS?!?"

You're misreading him. What he's saying is that if you're having a problem with something that doesn't make sense to you, and the adventure is over, the GM should have no problem explaining what happened--there's no risk of spoilers. @Lanefan's adventures just last for a few months. Do you...

So here, I said that the warlord was scary. Not magical, but scary. So you claiming that I said it was magical was at best a misreading of what I wrote. I said that the PC subclass can be seen as magical. Not a monster, not that it must be treated as magical, but that it can be. If the player...

And yet, and my most polite, you told me I was wrong, wrong wrong.

Has he actually said he has no direct control over the world? I gave an example, which I believe I linked you to: The Imperial family is killed by the PCs. The empire, which had been a collection of warring states before the emperor united them, falls back into warring states (in my initial...

Actually, it 100% matters. I want to know what these implausible reasons are for the king to not talk to us, because that will decide how I address the implausibility. Never mind that one of the perks of kingship is that they don't have to grant an audience to rag-tag bands of PCs who are...

By ignored, do you mean that's what everyone is actually saying? You have really got to stop strawmanning people and actually address them honestly. Seriously.