Search results

Yeah, but when you get into the guts of it, its really hard to believe some of the people running some aspects of those can be taken seriously on that given what they're doing. Some of the field agents and other mid-to-lower level types, on the other hand, can think that in good faith because...

I'll have to watch and see if it ever ends up on GOG. A lot of things he does aren't of much interest these days (I don't do realtime games much) but I started following him back when he did more longform games, and he still does some things I find interesting.

I just don't see it given all the emphasis on corruption and cosmic poisoning. I will just point out that C.J. Carella neither was born in nor grew up in the U.S. I'm not sure which specific country he was from, but he's South American (note his full name is Carlos J. Martijena-Carella. That...

This is based on the usual all or nothing assumptions I've taken issue with every time it came up, so I don't see any point in addressing it again. And I don't think explaining that yet one more time is useful either.

At a more than usually educated guess, I expect you'll be waiting forever. I didn't think the last draft was ready for primetime and as far as I know no work has been done on it in--a decade?--now. Only ones who know are George and Thom.

Its a hard question to answer. There are things I like about AGE, but at inception (Dragon Age) there were some serious problems following advancement. That said, Modern AGE is at this point effectively at least a fourth iteration down from DAGE, and Modern made some decisions directly...

Probably their best design, honestly; it didn't try and do more than it was capable of. But at one point George realized on some level he was attempting things he didn't have the resources to do, and just dropped back to running his store and selling an occasional product. There were books...

There's no need to be sulky because I don't think your simple solution is always or even usually a solution. Its just explaining why I don't think its generally a very useful answer.

And that's where I disagree; I think both of those (though the first more than the second) can be made better by handling. If you don't, well, that's what it is. And this makes an extremely optimistic assumption about how easy it is to find a group that works well enough without other...

The problem is, I don't believe all groups are good at actually communicating what they want as long as the GM is treated as the main authority. So "Do what's fun" is kind of a useless principal when used alone.

I'd make the same claim about some other games over D&D, but here we are. As someone who played in a WC campaign and ran an Armageddon one, it doesn't help that certain types end up easily dominating the play space. Carella may have thought he was designing them so there were tradeoffs, but...

"Should be" is not a term I ever used. I just said there are practical reasons that works that way, same as there are reasons D&D is as dominant as it is. Personally, I don't find either the WoD or the WitchCraft systems and settings particularly satisfying. but that's got nothing to do with...

Fragged Empire does it reasonably well, though as you say, they're very focused on one-on-one fights.

I'm sorry, I really can't see the Technocracy as more wild than the followers of the Mad God. Heck, I don't even consider them more wild than the Nephandi and their offshoots in other lines. What in the world makes you assume that isn't true in Armageddon? The setting where the Hosts of...

Not the criteria all of us are using. I'm often talking about what I believe is probably beneficial to the majority of players. I never assume the groups I play with are particularly typical (in fact I have reasons to believe they often aren't).

Yeah, that's pretty unusual.

Part of that is because SJG has stopped viewing it as its primary product line quite some time ago.

I don't know anything intrinsic to sandbox play that ties it to encounters or the like and forbids purely session based advancement. That entirely depends on whether you need advancement to motivate action rather than in-game motivations.

Unless you're getting into the Buffy-adjacent games or Conspiracy X that's most of them. They had some other plans (a broad-band supers game for example) but they never happened. Should have read further. Using just core WitchCraft that's true--but the moment anyone brings in Armageddon, it...

That's true but there are companies who are at least at the high-end cottage industry end, and those people have to pay attention to how well something is likely to move, because they can't treat it just like a hobby.