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No. Below average is below average. It is a statement about statistics, regarding some defined metric. "Good" and "bad" are subjective human assessments, and don't generally directly relate to statistics.

Mod Note: Interestingly, the word "racism" does not appear. If you are going to make public accusations like that, and the evidence is not present, then YOU are the problem here. Stop being the problem. Now, please.

I would say that it lacks one very important element that keeps it from being cyberpunk: electronics of any sort. Also, Arcane puts a strong focus on the craftsmanship of individuals, rather than on the mass-produced power of the corporate-state, which again, leans it away from cyberpunk...

It seems a pretty sensible general form, such that I don't doubt that it has been passed around a bit, or been developed independently a couple/few times.

That's not a good reason. I say that's a crummy reason - it puts the focus of play only on the end state, and not on the process of play. The point is not to eliminate as much of the process as possible - the point is to make the process interesting, engaging, and fun. It isn't like combat is...

It looks nice, but for me has one weakness - it looks like it reduces to a single roll. Like, we'll spend an hour with everyone rolling dice all over the place for a combat, but a social encounter gets one roll? For players who want to slide quickly through social interactions, to get to, say...

No problem! And my apologies if I looked jerkish there. Didn't mean to be such.

You get to feel however you want. Do we get to mention things that might mitigate how you feel, may have been overlooked, or engage in discussions of why folks may feel one way or another, or are your feelings posted on a discussion board but not open for discussion?

Really? That's your gripe - that they had appeared in one prior episode?

Let me see if I can articulate it. Leaving out the specifics of Draw Steel's dice mechanics, since I'd be porting it to some other system anyway... For any negotiation, an NPC has two stats, Interest and Patience, rated 0 to 5, representing how much they want to help, and and how much they...

Yeah, remember, Season 3 was impacted by the Writer's and SAG-AFTRA strikes that didn't end until November 2023. Filming on Season 3 started in December 2023, and ended in May 2024. The order for Season 4 didn't come until April 2024. So, by the time they knew they were doing a Season 4, the...

I carry "popcorn initiative" around into a lot of games - especially ones in which folks don't usually spend a lot of resources specifically on improving their ability to get good initiative. One I have not actually done, yet: I recently played a one-shot of Draw Steel, and it has a framework...

Pretty much the same here. Just not my favorite theme. Even more importantly, my players wouldn't care for it. Especially right now - my players aren't interested in unyielding dystopias. If there's problems in the fictional world, they wanna be able to do something about them.

Well, insofar as it can happen the other direction, too we can expect that rocks from Earth have ended up on Mars, too.

Hey, what's with all the absolutes? Don't drive this to poles without nuance. Please. Note something - you yourself were asserting that there's a pretty high turnover rate in players, that a player's career in the game might be as short as a year. How much expertise in what constitutes good...

I didn't question your ability to express yourself. I am presenting a counter-argument - we should not cordon off an entire style of games ("D&D and similar games") as sacrosanct from having such rules. That you want to have a game you like without such rules would not be an issue. Suggesting...

That is not quite correct . A (+) thread is for responses that don't question or deny the base premise of the thread, or otherwise try to shut down the thread's discussion. There was a time, years ago, when someone starting a discussion, "I think X is cool, I want to talk about X and how you...

There are a number of entertainments that folks (in the US, at least) take up in their adolescent/teen years, carry on for a couple/few years, and then drop. Reading comic books is (or at least was) one. Playing collectible card games, doing armature theater, and weekly beer pong are others...

"They" are "game designers and writers". If they want to include hard rules to govern GM or player behavior in their games, they get to do that.

Well, "new" is "new to humans/the Federation". Not literally new, like born yesterday, or something.