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I'd definitely also be looking at Outgunned for the proposed setup (modern action, moderate to low crunch, etc.), it's absolutely made for that, and is a pretty cool game. Apparently there's a Foundry module for it (I don't use VTTs much so know nothing beyond that).

Outgunned is a good idea though it is worth noting Outgunned campaigns are intentionally relatively short and contained by the design of the game, rather than potentially open-ended like Shadowrun. That might actually be a benefit if you're not wanting to run an open-ended campaign though...

I gotta presume the cyborg (Marrow) was a major part of capturing most of these species, because I don't see anyone else on the crew who is up to that, and he also clearly has and knows how to use capture equipment. I guess the blood bugs and the eye-octopus might just have been tempted into...

I think we have to see the this as an alt-history given the Maginot necessarily launched in 2055, and yeah we're definitely not going to have the capability to manufacture a space-faring vessel with that outward appearance by 2055 (and it'd have to have been started building, completed and...

Yeah same with The Witcher tv series. We got two ridiculous narratives out of that, firstly that Cavill was a nasty and hateful person to the rest of the crew, which seems to have been made up by a guy with like 50 followers on Twitter (and zero connection to or knowledge of the show), and then...

LOL obviously it does. Trivially obviously. Come on. Obviously it's a bigger deal if something which thousands of people spent millions on vanished without a trace than if it's something only dozens or hundreds of people cared about in the first place. A TTRPG that makes $10K is fine to make...

Because you said: And I'm sorry mate, but $10k is not a "pretty good Kickstarter", nor really is $50k when we're talking about comparisons with IP-based games with Kickstarters like $1.7m (Blade Runner). That a what, 170x difference? Is that right? That's like not comparing yourself to Usain...

What parts of these, exactly, do you cite as supporting your contention? I mean, it doesn't superficially appear that you've read them, because they're not immediately pertinent.

I don't necessarily disagree on that, but absolutely not a single word of it supports the "base-10 matters a lot!!!" contention I was writing about.

Whilst I kind of get it, especially for "premier TV"-type shows, it's a real pity, because so few shows have a chance to breath now. It's no wonder people, even younger people, keep going back to older shows with slower pacing and more exploration of characters and so on.

D&D 5E would count. We don't count out D&D, we say that D&D, especially 5E, was insanely successful, but on the terms of "Being the best-known game in the industry, backed up by a massive corporation". Even then, 5E - insanely successful. Not solely due to WotC's efforts, to be clear, but that's...

Yeah and the fact that some games, you wouldn't even want a VTT for them complicates matters further. Like, I can't imagine using a "rules-working" VTT for any PtbA or BitD game, or Spire or Heart or something, the value you'd gain compared to the effort required to make a VTT that isn't Owlbear...

It's the least-worst one imho, that's for sure (I had to check which one it was - it's the recent-ish Modiphus one, right? I do have the 2017 version and lot of sourcebooks thanks to Humble Bundle). I guess if the others wrecked on the rocks, it merely punctures the hull and has to evacuate a...

Personally funky dice are a hard red line for me. A couple of reasons for this: 1) No king rules forever, and most don't rule very long at all. I've often played RPGs 10 or more years after they were published, and had a good time, and if a game is designed around funky dice, it makes it that...

In a vacuum, it is equally valid I agree. However, if you intentionally choose to play a game you know isn't designed that way, and doesn't really support that mode of play then it is less valid in that particular context. Like, if I play MASKS, and then get mad that it genuinely doesn't handle...

How do you think this MFer dragged me through four books lol? :) I agree he could write a hell of a magic fight scene. I am quite glad Sanderson managed to combine "incredible fight scenes" and "great magic systems" with "incredibly boring books full of people I don't care about and who are...

No. That's just denialism, and by that logic no game since about 2016 has been at all successful, and no previous editions of D&D were even slightly successful (including the 1980s peak). Either success is relative, or it isn't. Pick a lane. For a system that was made by a handful of people...

I don't think they do though in any way that matters to this. I don't they think in a base at all for "small" math (which certainly includes up to 20), and I don't think that, without at least some attempt at science here, we can make claim as extreme as "d20s and d10s just make more sense to...

You say you've "seen a number", and my instinctive inclination was to agree, then I looked on Kickstarter just to find some funny examples to mock for us, and I'm not really seeing any actual examples! We look at the "pretty good Kickstarter" range (what, like north of $100k? higher?) that...

Yeah that felt kind of funny, like maybe that was written before the earlier scene? Because in the earlier scene, he's pushing for an away team to go down, but he doesn't even really get to finish his speech before the planet blows up, so like, buddy, I don't think anyone saw that coming. I...