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I would say it definitely does. In literary circles, "pulp" has the same pejorative connotations as "penny dreadful," "dime novel," "genre fiction," "comic book," and even (if you search hard enough) "paperback." I don't think people who might play games like D&D or happily read genre fiction...

Does it? It's only your melee damage and your toughness. You still need agility for fighting (and parry). Shooting only takes shooting. What if either Toughness or melee damage were a skill, instead of being a pure attribute? Maybe that isn't any better of a design. It's just odd that Strength...

Yes. The more you can push the system out of using the table's time, the better. The system isn't bad, but the game tends to be more fun when you're more concerned with focusing on the action. Nobody is really at the table because they love executing the game's procedures. See, I like it...

It just means evocative of the kinds of stories you'd find in pulp magazines, but the whole point is that a lot of those things have good, entertaining stories. Black Mask, Weird Science, and Amazing Stories were very influential on pop culture throughout the 20th century. Indiana Jones, Flash...

I mean, it's an almost ubiquitous complaint about the 2d20 Conan system whenever I've seen it criticized, and as others have mentioned here they capped the pools in later versions of the game system. But sure, you can say it's not a problem you can address by adjusting the system if you want.

That's interesting. Do you use a fixed global pool, then? One of the problems we had with Doom/Momentum in 2d20 Conan was that you could just overload the GM with Doom. One of the PCs was a berserker that always did a max Doom spend in combat. It became clear that that could be a problem. It...

We did the same. I had a reminder note on my GM shield to do it. Initially, I tried to award them whenever someone played well, but it got to be too easy to forget. Eventually, I just gave one out to every PC after every scene as long as it felt like the PCs were challenged. Same problem with...

It's a feature for me, too, but it definitely means that this otherwise-generic system is only generic for certain styles of play. That's fine for me because I like pulpy action. Yeah, this is an issue that I think they need to address. It does feel like loading your revolver with 5 nerf...

No, the phenomenon I've experienced is pretty much only universal to deeply a-la-carte systems. Any class-based system with non-existent or severely limited multiclassing tends to avoid it immediately, because there's no inherent flaw in allowing you to get really good, class-defining, signature...

Oh, I know some people love it for that. Most of the things I don't like are things that attract people to the system. Like I said, 15 years ago, it would've been everything I wanted in a system. I do not think it's a bad game. I just find it viscerally repulsive now. My tastes have changed.

I haven't played it but I have read it extensively, and built a few characters. It's a good game, but absolutely not for me. Fifteen years ago I was definitely the kind of player that would love a game system like PF2e, but I just have no interest in a system this heavy. What I like: General...

Eh, I think it's a push. Both systems have their quirks. Savage Worlds has issues with high Toughness, which can cause issues with scaling. You can find yourself in a situation where it feels like you're attacking each other with Nerf bats and Nerf guns, until someone manages to Ace a couple...

Yeah, the article does say that, but then it also shows a chart with this revenue progression: 2014: $761.2m 2016: $906.7m (+19.1% since 2014) 2019: $1,286.6m (+41.9% since 2016) 2022: $1,325.1m (+3.0% since 2019) So... what? It's particularly misleading because inflation has been high since...

I don't even think the time is really the issue. I would say the dissonance is being able to take multiple hits full-on from a crossbow just because you spent a some time underground and found The Lost Gewgaw of Hocus Pocus. Nevermind stuff like, "Now that I have defeated the Goblin King in...

The true issues, from least severe to most severe: Polymorph and summoning effects need to use templates or they will never be balanced. It's the only fix, and the developers have only showed us deeply unsatisfying versions of it, but it's the only fix that scales. The other partial fix is a...

Sure, but it's the same development hell that everything is going through right now, rather than some infamous Pytho-Quixotic development hell. I might not believe it even then. Not until we see someone walk the pattern.

Has there been bad news about Colbert's series that I hadn't heard?

I really don't see why this is important at all. I see no benefit in sustaining this illusion of a permanent realistic world when it's not permanent, not realistic, and not even a world. Furthermore, where does it stop? When I set up the first dungeon of my campaign, do I need to have finished...

This matches my feelings very well. It also matches my objections to people who object to die roll fudging well, too. I don't see anything sacred about what I do when I prep for the night that suggests that the choices I made in the past should override what I've learned in the meantime. That...

Given that they've shifted the classes in the playtest to remove the heavy short rest reliance -- in particular from both Warlock and Fighter -- specifically because of repeated complaints, I'm not inclined to think your experience is as common as WotC would like.