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I'm not sure what fridge logic is, exactly. Some of your questions have answers in-game in the codex. From the codex: Geth adaptation It was long thought that personal weapons had plateaued in performance, but the geth proved all theories wrong. Mathematically reviewing their combat logs...

That's a very good point. The point there was that it's a railroad because regardless of what they players did or want to do, that event will happen and it will happen exactly as the module says it must. The module requires a specific event and outcome and the players are forced to enact it...

Well, I don't think everyone has agreed on one definition, but I think that several people (including myself) have generally looked on Umbran's post up-thread as being a pretty straightforward and generally accepted definition. For myself, I've always seen adventure styles working on a...

Well, I'm impugning his leadership because the rest of his mercs helped and after 20 years, Zaeed not only hasn't got his revenge but is still a loner. Maybe his introduction colored my thoughts on the matter: "You may know the name; Zaeed has been involved in some of the best known (and some...

He led them so well that they shot in the face and left him for dead and after a couple of years, no one even remembered he was one of the two guys to start the organization. Not what I'd call a stellar leader. :) I'm not sure what you mean about 'tagging the same person for the right choice'...

Finished it this past weekend. Outstanding game from beginning to end. Yeah, the scanning got dull...but if I'd realized I was better served just by one mining rich planets, generally, I would have been better served (and much of the text indicated when you found stuff, like the 'eezo trio'...

Hmmm. The emperor is all about knowing, having been told constantly through his life, that he is both divinely ordained, infallible and really not that bright. You have access (in theory) to limitless funds. OR....do you? Take things from the opposite tack: the Emperor demands lots of...

I've added spoiler tags for what I'm assuming you're referring to, which is plot details on the first episode that was shown on TV (and which is actually the second episode). I left most of the salient details out...and we are talking about the first episode of an 8 year old TV show...but I...

Merric, The setting is fairly broad and the show kept most of the details vague enough that you have lots of room. I'd watch the episodes more for flavor than setting details, as there aren't as many as you might think. Boiled down to it's roots, you really only need a few details: 1) The...

I'm not quite sure how making spells harder to cast is going to recreate the Vancian system. The spells are still going to be 'samey', you just are going to have extra mechanics to slow down the process. Then you're looking to patch the patch, by either changing all the spells and then...

I was gonna try and distill it down...and then billd91 did it all for me. Pretty much everything he says is exactly what I would have said.

Well, I grok what you're saying, but these games ARE made by people. Even the most randomly generated quest game still is designed, in some capacity. Most of the things you describe here can be found in video games NOW. And have been for several years...although certainly there are plenty of...

Well, that's true. But my point was that over the years I've seen it used as a pejorative both in defense and as an accusation of the same system. Third Edition, for example, was declared to be 'videogamey' and 'animey'. I don't hear people who are using the term as a pejorative in reference...

Just a quick reminder: "Video-gamey" is not a 4E-specific term. In point of fact, it was leveled at 3E D&D almost from the start. Eberron was called videogamey many times, as has the Forgotten Realms game AND novels. There are plenty of examples out there. I mean, it's not a new discussion...

Yeah, they effectively just changed those skills to Paragon/Renegade actions and gave the choice to choose them during encounters...effectively making them a resource that you can use passively to unlock actions/results in game. While I originally was unhappy with ME2's much sparser character...

And that's a perfectly valid opinion to hold. My issue is not with whether the a specific edition is or is not 'video-gamey', but rather that that often the claim of 'vidoe-gamey' is too broad and vague to communicate their actual meaning. Mass Effect 2, for example, features far less emphasis...

Well, this isn't a new discussion, of course. I think my .sig gives you an idea of my thoughts on the matter. One thing I find interesting about this discussion is that folks tend to attack the term "videogamey" from the RPG angle, but I really don't see many folks attacking it from the video...

I think it's safe to say he didn't mean the Internet as a whole entity/concept. He was specifically referring to general access to it and to the web, FTP and e-mail....and possibly really only the web. And the first time I saw the web was in 1992 at a lab. Yahoo had 896 pages indexed...

Nertz. Double-post.

I'm pretty much of the opinion that maybe Chris didn't handle things in the most optimal fashion for some playstyles, but classifying him as a 'bad DM' or having 'made a mistake' is far off the mark. And as Umbran already mentioned, in the context of a group of total newbies to 4E playing a...