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Yeah, when I bought the revised version not long ago (I thought if I was going to even passingly talk about PbtA games I should have something a bit less off in an odd corner than the first edition of Monsterhearts) it felt very Supernatural to me. Probably the reason so many of the playbooks...

I'm quite looking forward to this (but then, I liked the far-future period more than a lot of people apparently); if anything I've seen is a downside its that apparently the role for Tilly/Wiseman is smaller than I'd have assumed it to be, but she's got another show she's going to be somewhat...

My own feeling is twofold: 1. Does it genuinely interest me, either to read or play (and yes, I'm quite capable of finding a way to run games off the beaten path; not a single game I've participated in as a player or GM has been D&D proper, and more than half haven't even been D&D adjacent)? I...

I didn't even realize that was about the remake. I should learn to pay more attention.

I know you said "almost" (and I want to acknowledge that because it annoys me to no end if I qualify something and people act like I didn't), but I think there are some "realistic" ones where if that's true, you could act like its diegetic without causing any harm in play--Westerns come to mind...

That was more or less what I remembered, but I haven't run the system in decades (and it was always possible I was conflating it with the Hero System which I've run more recently and more frequently) so I didn't want to say so authoritatively.

Uhm, "when" matters a fair bit with some of those, at least regarding sequence if not precisely which when. There are some martial arts/fencing combos that can be made to work well by timing Blocks and strikes that if you don't know when you're going to get them would be, at best, significantly...

I think you're mistaken here. I remember plenty of modifiers for physical skills based on situation at least.

I wonder how forgotten at least a few of the nerdy examples there are. Dark Shadows isn't, for example.

Eh. Whether you apply difficulty directly or by modifying a roll is basically irrelevant; the probabilities are and whether the adjustment of same seems to fit the setting/situation.

Its not intrinsically harder; if its pulpy, you can handle the problem with luck points and the like. If not, and not having good armor, you just have to avoid much combat. If there is good armor, then its not unreasonable for a lot of attacks to lead to injury, not death.

The problem is that its never been generic. Too many of the mechanics are too specific for that (the specifics of classes and spells being the standout here). It may be somewhat broad, but it doesn't even cover all fantasy by any means.

There were a lot of PrCs in the 3e era that were absolutely traps once you got into them (and some that were virtually intelligence tests in that they could do almost everything meaningful that the closest extent class did and then some). Some were pretty obvious if you understood the game and...

But the rest of that almost doesn't matter. The character knows things they are not supposed to know. Even if its a taken that certain things will happen, there are often things the characters are not supposed to know (its why characters like Deadpool or Ambush Bug are entertaining to some...

Though this assumes "what you choose to be" isn't expecting a certain degree of competence to go with it. I'm not sure a lot of people would really be onboard "You can be a Divranian Ominous Spellcrafter, but you will most likely be less competent than any standard spellcaster and the side...

@payn, I'm so damn sorry. I've said before that the one curse that dogs lay on us is that they live so much shorter than we do. It makes me understand the relationship between fairy and humans more than I really want to.

For what its worth, that was more or less what the old RGFA simulationists seemed to think of as one of its defining traits. Its one reason genre emulation was not assumed into simulationism then, because there are elements in some genre conventions that cannot assumed to be present in the...

That was kind of what I meant by "hard to do" in that context; that you kind of need to go out of your way to ruin potatoes (barring the usual overcook/undercook issues which apply to almost any food you cook at all).

There were also some timing things in Hero about active defenses like Dodge and Block that I can't help but think would get--odd.

I never found a 7 that much of an issue when everyone else was SPD 5-6