Search results

Its hard to say. I was around then, and while ongoing campaigns were not unknown then, I don't recall seeing any that went for more than a couple of years. On the other hand, most of the people I was interacting with either in person or via other means weren't sticking with the same game...

I think @Hussar had a good argument relating to this; "campaign" is a relatively neutral term in the hobby (barring a small subset that are particularly hostile to the wargaming origin of both the hobby and that term), so its not going to be viewed as insulting that someone uses it for someone...

And it wasn't like sponsoring scientists wasn't kind of a thing in the 1800's in some cases. The only difference really is that modern experimentation has reached the point in the sciences involved that you usually can't do it in your basement, so the needed resources have expanded in scope.

Its not insulting per se. It might get so if he was insistent that other people weren't running a campaign every time they talked about doing so but weren't applying it the way he was. In other words, using it for gatekeeping purposes.

Don't unwatch a thread often, but time to do so there, I think.

Honestly, you can argue always was there.

Yup, my instinct not to let myself slide into another MoS adjacent discussion was sound.

Oh, that explains a lot. Yeah, with that low a probability of success per die, you're going to need a very large number of dice before you have any stability. My experiences have all been with die pools that were between 30-50% chance of a success per die.

But that's an artifact of that system that deciding one character shouldn't win quite as often as 90%. Its not hard to set the probabilities so that's not true. Look at the difference if you set the target numbers in that system at 5. At that point it limits how small you can make the chance...

Its not unknown to have a person who views humanity as a whole as making more amoral decisions than they, themselves do. In particular I can see someone who views people in power as being very tempted in that direction.

I think there's some foggy space with people who get into things like Adventure Paths without understanding most of them, to be used in anything like total, do require some degree of restraining choice; assuming the GM realizes this and assumes most players do (and that as you say, those that...

In general I agree with you, but when an environment has broke down into side-taking (as this thread long ago did), I think not making sure you take your own side to task inevitably comes across as a case of just caring because your ox was gored.

Probably. Its got a very different semantic impact when used in the context of a group where everyone understands it as not an insult than when used in a general case where its liable to be perceived as one.

For a number of years prior to COVID I either GMed for, or played in games by him pretty regularly. I miss him a lot, as I'd known him even when he wasn't local for decades.

Though it kind of depends. On one hand, I think blowing off the semantic loading on "railroad" is either blind to how such things matter or a little disingenuous, on the other hand, self-awareness can show when one is aware that the distinction largely is about awareness; when I ran Scion 1e...

Just a side comment, but to me most dice pool systems feel far less swingy than D20 or D100 systems; I see massive swings in my 13th Age game all the time that would be extremely uncommon in most dice pool systems I know of. As a second aside, like you say, the point in D100 systems is to be...

That's likely the disease of near-system conflation. People who've played a lot of closely related games, or played through multiple editions of one game are often prone to confusing rules from one with another. We used to see it with Runequest all the time back in the day, as we'd played...

This suggests to me that you kind of really lean into a more D20-adjacent desire in fantasy at least (though I acknowledge the BESM note); I'd call SW plenty gamist in a lot of its orientation. (That said, I haven't seen it used in fantasy at all; all the games I've seen it used for were modern...

Be aware the costs on things through them is probably going to go up very soon.

Yup, I've hit that a few times too. Usually I notice before I try to post a response to a 5 year old post. Usually.