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Again, there is no lie.

Eh. In one form or another I've been fighting cultists most of my life. A few more don't scare me.

I mean, there's no lie.

Exactly. In a book filled with spectacular advice and great design it's one of maybe four hiccups.

That’s where I am, too. If the fight’s not supposed to be challenging, or the scene is not important…skip it! If the scene or fight are worth having in the game at all, they’re worth being important. Something like 1/4 of the referee advice is about keeping things moving and interesting. Make...

M&M3E is the game that finally broke me and my love of crunch. After beating my head against it I just couldn't anymore. Gimme rules light games for days. I love GR and M&M so I'll still buy the new core when it comes out to put on my shelf with all the others, but the chances of me playing or...

That's the kind of cozy fantasy I could get into.

Possibly, I think it's also a matter of practicality. Not everyone is going to start playing at the same time. Just because you start a campaign with these 4-6 players does not mean those will be the same 4-6 players in a year, two, three, four...etc. But I absolutely agree with the attitude of...

Oh wow. That’s a lot. The top 4-5 are easy. The rest get murky and harder to separate. DS9. Hands down the best Star Trek. It’s not even close. More amazing characters, stories, actors, etc than any other Star Trek show. TNG, series and movies. Lots of great episodes and characters, but...

Yes. If you follow the terrible advice on fear spending limits you will be fear capped most of the game. And that’s why the fear spend by scene limit is terrible advice. Don’t do that. Spend fear freely.

I get that. I can’t stand listening to most people, outside of immediate family and friends. But I love me some useful information dense video essays. The gist is that the PC’s backstory is for the player to realize the character and they should not expect the referee to read any of it at all...

Go with the simplest solution. Their advice is wrong. Spend fear as you please. You don't need to make the game more complicated by adding separate banks of fear to somehow try to preserve following their clearly wonky GM advice.

Well, it wouldn't be the first time the designers didn't understand how parts of their game interacted with each other in the field.

Yeah. It's a great one. I thought about posting it when it dropped but didn't want to deal with the push back.

There's a Gamers Seeking Games subforum. https://www.enworld.org/forums/gamers-seeking-gamers.49/

3E is very much a continuation of 1E and 2E. It's been over a decade, but I remember things being smoothed out with each edition rather than radically changed. But it's definitely the same game, just tweaks and refinements. 3E added the ranks & measures chart that is essentially lifted from DC...

I speak from experience when I say I’ve had players like that rage-quit when their beloved PC took a single point of damage. I absolutely do not understand this type of player.

Yeah, I'd say that part of the advice was outright terrible. Roughly 45% of PC rolls generate Fear so if you follow those guidelines you're going to be Fear capped almost the entire game.