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Wow. Yikes. I think he’d last maybe a session at my table before the polite boot.

It's like trying to have a conversation with a rules lawyer. It's some kind of weird gotcha. If the person can't discuss the topic in good faith they just attack you for not saying it's your opinion when it clearly is. Just one more example of this being the dumbest possible timeline.

Yeah. We recently tried a game of B/X but most of the players and the referee treated it like 5E. It utterly failed as an old-school game because of that. No one bothered with the environment. The few times I tried I got looks from the rest of the table like I was causing problems. "Just fight...

You sound like me. Have you heard of the FKR? Free Kriegsspiel Renaissance. It sounds like what you're talking about. Not a game but a playstyle. Genre emulation and world immersion without worrying about mechanics much if at all. It can work great with the right group. Ben Milton over on...

Yeah, that's largely where my concern is in restricting things in a superhero game. I love the wild and gonzo Silver Age stuff so not being able to throw in literally whatever is just a non-starter for me. Subatomic worlds, alternate dimensions, bank robbers, lost civilizations, hollow Earth...

I will never understand that "perfect unto myself" or "win the game in character creation" mindset. For me, interacting with the environment is largely the fun of many RPGs.

I don't know. They're blending together. That's one thing I think DC Heroes nails with subplots. Messing with someone's secret ID is an example of a subplot. The PC can nope out at any time, even after the subplot has already started. That's the kind of veto power I'm cool with. In regards to...

Absolutely. Buy in is key regardless of the genre. And yes, contributing to the setting is one way among many to get that buy in. It's not the only one and it's not even that common of one. To me, that's fantastic. As presented, the suggestion was the players should have veto power over setting...

Yeah. Note I didn’t say zero. Some slight control, sure. Deciding on and naming some NPCs related to the character, sure. Whether aliens exist? Not a chance. I’ve always viewed the setting as the referee’s character. If a player would be mad that the referee vetoed some aspect of their...

Eh. The players should have just as much control over the setting as the referee has control over the characters.

Yeah, that’s fair. For us it was the three metacurrencies and all the little rules scattered throughout that tripped us up the most. How does this work? I dunno. Look it up. And the answers were never that intuitive. It mostly read like mechanics for mechanics’ sake. If you stripped the system...

I'd say STA is less crunchy than Delta Green. But it's close.

It 100% plays better than it reads. Whether you like how it plays or not is another question entirely.

I couldn't say. The closest to any of those I've been is Call of Cthulhu.

That's absolutely fair. The line is amazing for Star Trek fans. Lots of great books and resources. I just really, really dislike the 2d20 system. I would suggest a 1-2 page cheat sheet of the system rather than reading the book itself. It's just so poorly written. If someone's familiar with...

I'd point you to dungeonpunk.

Fair point. That could be but there’s nothing calling that out. The section is otherwise fairly detailed on how disasters function. So if that was their intent it’s a major oversight. The best kind of system.

Really any kind of clock would do. Pick a number and that's how many successes you need to end the problem. Give it an intensity rank for FEATs and damage. Or give it a health pool and reduce it with each successful FEAT. Decide what kinds of things are really effective (double successes or...

Oh boy. There is a massive difference in the level of crunch. John Carter is the lightest of them. I don't know Homeworld, but Conan or Star Trek are tied for the heaviest. I'd recommend John Carter or Dune as places to start. As much as I dislike 2d20 and Modiphius, those two are really well...

In the fiction and the earlier editions as well. Templars as one of the few divine casters in Dark Sun is a really big deal.