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  1. Thomas Shey

    General video game discussion

    Yeah, but, honestly, the number of remakes of older 4x games that get a good response is, shall we say, thin on the ground.
  2. Thomas Shey

    General video game discussion

    Can't say I had any of that. Part of it will be your tolerance for the graphics. I'm not completely hostile to older style graphics--as noted, my default comfort food game is Master of Orion 2--but the original Master of Magic goes a bit too far. (The remake also addressed some mechanical...
  3. Thomas Shey

    General video game discussion

    Or, "why am I playing Master of Orion 2 again?"
  4. Thomas Shey

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Well, you're at least practiced with it now.:eek:
  5. Thomas Shey

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I don't know about MMO players--they're almost a thing to themselves--but you get some distinct stresses between people interested only in single-player game and PvP or co-op types, in part because its not easy to make a game really good for both.
  6. Thomas Shey

    D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?

    I've got an associated player who is notoriously risk-averse. She isn't averse to getting work done, but she's always vaguely resentful when her character gets attacked, and will try and position herself so that happens a minimal amount of time. Only good thing is she's not prone to avoiding...
  7. Thomas Shey

    General video game discussion

    Eh, I've been playing it for a while now and it seems fine. My only complaint was they had an opportunity to fix the diplomatic system from the original and not only didn't, it seems if anything worse. Other than that I haven't seen anything to complain about.
  8. Thomas Shey

    Why do we need thieves??

    I do have to point out niche protection isn't a priority in a lot of games. You can argue whether that is a good idea or not, but its less and less considered necessary the farther you get away from the D&D sphere. Since the OP is as coy as they are about their system, its hard to tell how...
  9. Thomas Shey

    D&D General What are your reasons for doing something because "It's what my character would do"?

    Generally I do so because, well, its kind of the point. That said, I'm not the guy who's going to ignore the impact it'll have on other players or the game as a whole, so I'll do my best to steer around problems there unless the other actions seem pretty much oppositional to what the character...
  10. Thomas Shey

    What are you reading in 2025?

    Once you have time travel that isn't blocked off in some fashion, that sort of thing in kind is intrinsic to the beast.
  11. Thomas Shey

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    I'm 6'2" and my wife is 5'2". It sometimes seems like half the shelving in the house is too high or too low.
  12. Thomas Shey

    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Blind spots can be as harmful to discussion as hostility.
  13. Thomas Shey

    What was your 2nd RPG?

    I'm going to say a particularly obscure game called Starfaring. Its not impossible I actually got Metamorphosis Alpha or Empire of the Petal Throne first, however. (As you might be able to tell, my first was OD&D).
  14. Thomas Shey

    What is/are your most recent TTRPG purchase(s)?

    Got the 13th Age 2e PDFs from the Kickstarter.
  15. Thomas Shey

    What are you reading in 2025?

    I'd recommend Salem's Lot, but part of it is that I found some aspects of Pet Semetary extremely unpleasant and did not finish it.
  16. Thomas Shey

    What are you reading in 2025?

    Honestly, most of the last quarter of the book could have gone and not harmed the story at all. I mean, I'd been reading King since Carrie, and the difference in "I need space to develop characters to set up the story properly like I did in Salem's Lot" and "I just will go into a lot of side...
  17. Thomas Shey

    What are you reading in 2025?

    Uncut. Though honestly, it read more like "expanded".
  18. Thomas Shey

    What are you reading in 2025?

    Doesn't change the fact the larger version of that book was at leasta third longer than it should have been, and that was turning into a progressive problem at that point in his career.
  19. Thomas Shey

    What are you reading in 2025?

    It was about the first half, not the second. You're not any worse off being edited by your spouse than being edited by someone who won't say "no".
  20. Thomas Shey

    What are you reading in 2025?

    Stephan King.
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