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Right? The West Wing always seemed deeply self-satisfied and bombastic. Now it seems deeply self-satisfied, bombastic, and hopelessly, childishly naïve. Like "should not be allowed out of the house on its own" levels of naïve. Further, it's seemed that way for quite a long time - I don't think...

Yeah cozy I can see because that's not a genre it's a tone, like D&D is absolutely a game it's extremely easy to make "cozy", in fact I've seen it happen without any intentionality at all, just convergent ideas from the players and DM. But it is not a tone I'm fond for RPGs either lol. I'm not...

You are absolutely coming straight in with the a very insightful analysis! Yes this is absolutely key to "player skill". I don't think it's entirely that, but it's a big part of it. Another aspect is the DM being reasonable and willing/able to listen to what the players want to do, and to think...

When did they decide that? I know they did, I just don't remember when. Because it kinda looks like in the DNDnext playtests, they sort of were looking at diegetic classes, but by the time 5E came out, we had a bunch of bland non-diegetic classes mixed in with others that seemed like maybe they...

1) I gave examples and specifics upthread. That you ignored them or w/e isn't on me. So you have no leg to stand on when you complain there. 2) You claimed, without any apparent evidence or basis, and directly contradicting an awful lot of people in this thread, that the only way a horror RPG...

D&D 5E refuses to commit hard enough to make classes diegetic though. The only edition which really did commit in that way was 4E. Plenty of D&D-inspired games commit on that level too (indeed it's pretty common). On example is Earthdawn, which was an early attempt to basically fix all of D&D's...

Are there significant TTRPGs for any of those genres? Or are you like, really opposed to games written by one guy on Itch.io that have sold like 80 to 300 copies lol? If we were talking videogames I could definitely see being opposed to bloody farm sim though good god talk about oversupported!

Maybe because you've never played a game where the mechanics actually helped the horror to work, rather than just not getting in the way? I don't mean that in a sarcastic way, just that that, is in fact highly likely to be the case. In fact you seem to confirm this: Nope. That's not the...

I mean, that's a valid perspective, but I don't think it's one that comports well with how D&D is actually played, nor how it's treated by the designers over the editions. In every edition we've seen designers treat classes as both specific fiction and just as mechanical. We've also seen how...

I don't think that's a fair comment at all. I think the issue isn't "low energy" and that is just insulting and also a bit ignorant, frankly. The issue is that a certain mode of play is close to optimal, so that mode of play will be reflected. He's hardly the first poster to point out PF2 can...

No. That would be some weird tangent you could go off on as an ad hominem, but that's on you if you want to do that. I clearly outlined my reasons for thinking why Mothership worked better as a horror RPG, you ignored those. Re: profit I mention it because nerds love to claim something making a...

I just don't buy it lol. It seems like either you're arguing for something that's so minor it's not even worth discussing (like if a Cleric's god literally-literally never comes up ever), or it's a position that isn't plausible, because it's just not how D&D is actually played. I would say in...

I loved how utterly cringe it was when he was trying to fit actual events to the narrative of Peter Pan, because I've actually seen people try and do that sort of thing and it's like, insufferable unless it's fully a joke and you're all in on it. He's such a creep! Morrow was fantastic as ever...

They haven't made any statements suggesting it is, despite extensive interviews. It hasn't been renewed for an S2 but I expect that it will be. I suspect Disney is just waiting until all eight episodes are out to announce it so it doesn't act as "spoilers". Journalists who saw 6/8 episodes...

It isn't? Huh. I guess a lot of people on the internet have been lying lol. Yeah that's a good way to put it, I see where you're coming from.

Yes, I do, to be honest. I'm not sure that's what @Crimson Longinus actually believes, but, it's the sentiment being expressed imho - see below: I would argue that for most Clerics played in D&D, they might mention their god, but it's very rare, in recent editions (but even back in 2E) for the...

Nah. CoC is absolutely medium crunch. I suggest you re-read the actual, surprisingly overdetailed rules, which refute the "It's just percentile roll under man" shenanigans. By that logic, all of 5E "It's just d20 roll over man". I say this having played CoC recently a few times and being kind...

This one, and I think it's pretty obvious. The sheer amount of enthusiasm for Mothership, the relatively much higher number of actual-plays involving it than Alien (especially now, rather than when Alien came out), and so on. It's obviously not scientific, but I think you'll agree it's nearly...

This feels to me like posturing/posing/"fronting" of the most risible kind. I guarantee if we look through campaigns you have participated in, even characters you've played, plenty of them will be "pointless" by this standard. And I very much doubt you were thinking "Well Jen's Cleric is a...

By this logic, virtually all games which aren't combat-centric D&D-style games are "horror", though. So that's extremely low bar, I'd suggest. Re: "lethal", "brutal", "can't count on success"? Have we played the same CoC? I've mostly played official CoC adventures (standard, not pulp) and I'd...