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Maybe because you've never played a game where the mechanics actually helped the horror to work, rather than just not getting in the way? I don't mean that in a sarcastic way, just that that, is in fact highly likely to be the case. In fact you seem to confirm this: Nope. That's not the...

I mean, that's a valid perspective, but I don't think it's one that comports well with how D&D is actually played, nor how it's treated by the designers over the editions. In every edition we've seen designers treat classes as both specific fiction and just as mechanical. We've also seen how...

I don't think that's a fair comment at all. I think the issue isn't "low energy" and that is just insulting and also a bit ignorant, frankly. The issue is that a certain mode of play is close to optimal, so that mode of play will be reflected. He's hardly the first poster to point out PF2 can...

No. That would be some weird tangent you could go off on as an ad hominem, but that's on you if you want to do that. I clearly outlined my reasons for thinking why Mothership worked better as a horror RPG, you ignored those. Re: profit I mention it because nerds love to claim something making a...

I just don't buy it lol. It seems like either you're arguing for something that's so minor it's not even worth discussing (like if a Cleric's god literally-literally never comes up ever), or it's a position that isn't plausible, because it's just not how D&D is actually played. I would say in...

I loved how utterly cringe it was when he was trying to fit actual events to the narrative of Peter Pan, because I've actually seen people try and do that sort of thing and it's like, insufferable unless it's fully a joke and you're all in on it. He's such a creep! Morrow was fantastic as ever...

They haven't made any statements suggesting it is, despite extensive interviews. It hasn't been renewed for an S2 but I expect that it will be. I suspect Disney is just waiting until all eight episodes are out to announce it so it doesn't act as "spoilers". Journalists who saw 6/8 episodes...

It isn't? Huh. I guess a lot of people on the internet have been lying lol. Yeah that's a good way to put it, I see where you're coming from.

Yes, I do, to be honest. I'm not sure that's what @Crimson Longinus actually believes, but, it's the sentiment being expressed imho - see below: I would argue that for most Clerics played in D&D, they might mention their god, but it's very rare, in recent editions (but even back in 2E) for the...

Nah. CoC is absolutely medium crunch. I suggest you re-read the actual, surprisingly overdetailed rules, which refute the "It's just percentile roll under man" shenanigans. By that logic, all of 5E "It's just d20 roll over man". I say this having played CoC recently a few times and being kind...

This one, and I think it's pretty obvious. The sheer amount of enthusiasm for Mothership, the relatively much higher number of actual-plays involving it than Alien (especially now, rather than when Alien came out), and so on. It's obviously not scientific, but I think you'll agree it's nearly...

This feels to me like posturing/posing/"fronting" of the most risible kind. I guarantee if we look through campaigns you have participated in, even characters you've played, plenty of them will be "pointless" by this standard. And I very much doubt you were thinking "Well Jen's Cleric is a...

By this logic, virtually all games which aren't combat-centric D&D-style games are "horror", though. So that's extremely low bar, I'd suggest. Re: "lethal", "brutal", "can't count on success"? Have we played the same CoC? I've mostly played official CoC adventures (standard, not pulp) and I'd...

But those aren't the only options - if they were, 5E would be drastically less successful. You can also modify 5E or just play it in different ways that aren't strictly by-the-book and huge numbers of people choose to do that. I mean, in an ideal world maybe people would "play something...

That's a reasonable question, but I think there are so many different patrons at this point it may well be that any given DM hasn't thought much about certain specific ones. I think it's about equally bad, or slightly worse than that, actually. Never underestimate how much people hate forced...

Level 9 in 2024. Having a guy you can phone up and ask 5 questions, none of which he has to answer, and which might make him angry if you keep doing, doesn't mean you need to make it a major part of the campaign, which was what you seemed to say: It just doesn't. It doesn't force you to do...

It really isn't. That's a very strange thing to say. You might as well say Clerics are pointless if the campaign doesn't involve going on and on and on endlessly about the PC's god and their various worldly conflicts, and if they follow a god who doesn't have worldly conflicts, or whose values...

Yes though I share @Parmandur's preference for the size and population of Sigil to remain extremely ambiguous/nebulous myself. But at least in the multiple millions.

I feel like most people don't actually "adjust" as much as "tolerate", and to me, those are very different things. D&D has a lot of quirks a lot of people who play it don't really like nor necessarily adjust to in the sense of actually accepting, but they just sort of ignore because things...

3E and 4E's takes on Sigil were INSANE in a bad way. Both of them seemed to very certain that they wanted to basically turn Sigil into the planar equivalent of a moderately-sized and insular Midwestern city, in population and in politics lol. I gotta believe the same axe-grinder was behind both...