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I will play on Normal as usual, so I trust I'll do ok with just gear boni and a good stock of the plain drugs for most fights. But then again, towards the end of any game one can never be TOO op, right.

As to STR 60, I’m not aiming quite that high. But I’m still planning on hitting the drugs hard this playthrough, for the fun of it. ’Roided up drug fiend is not my usual type of char in any game 😄

Thanks for the replies re: melee. Yeah, I'm leaning toward using weapons, if nothing else just to have some variety and Blacksmithing fun. Fisting stuff is probably hilarious for a couple of hours, but it's a long game.

I've reinstalled the game + DLCs and plan to make another full playthrough during the summer. Shame to say I've only made one full playthrough before, despite sinking lots and lots, and lots, of hours into the game exploring every nook. That was with a semi-cheesy stealth Deliverer VATS build -...

My total prep time is pretty constant. But most of it is spent making and moving frames for overarching plots, developing fun NPCs with depth, and further nestle webs of conspiracy, mysteries etc - ie longer term stuff that is in constant change depending on the party's latest shenanigans. For...

I adore Andy Weir and see his books as great cultural acts. Not because he is a Nobel prize class stylist or literary inventor, but his books - PHM in particular - is glorious tributes to golden age sci-fi with a positive and optimistic tone that is sorely needed in this day and age. That they...

I would love something with the feel of FGU's Aftermath but playable without Excel and unlimited amounts of time.

It's fine as is. With alignment gone, the characters are about to be betrayed and chewed up by that ultra-evil gold dragon.

I doubt it's only starting keepers that aim for a loose simulation of an era rather than an exact period replica to the most minute detail. When I've GMed CoC I just do what I always do, make sh*t up, and my players had fun as usual without complaining about, say, that a walnut rifle stock on a...

What I enjoy reading: Phat heavy crunch tomes made out of whole trunks of dead trees. What I enjoy in actual play: GMing my own long campaigns using a light-mid crunch system with lots of room for GM fiat and on the spot improv. Hence, I only use Savage Worlds these days, but still enjoy reading...

Still have a few books left in my complete Thomas Mann stack, currently at the end of Doctor Faustus, good stuff. In my toilet library I'm currently rererereading Gibsons Burning Chrome as a porcelain throne warmup for yet another Necromancer pleasure trip.

In all systems I GM, it’s RP first, and then rolls may modify it a little bit.

For the impact it’s had on my gaming, probably Runequest 2ed core.

I have an ad in the bottom of my iPad screen while reading this thread. It’s in Swedish and want me to buy very high end stove fan ventilation 😂

I spent uncountable hours on Classic Car Wars in my teens, even though we didn't do any serious roleplaying with it. I even bought the GURPS Auto-dueling book just for the fluff. So of course it's my favorite tactical system, even if we played it with corps or auto-dueling teams as characters...

Hopefully this is solvable as I like their products.

One of the reasons Savage Worlds is my main game is that while there are levels, kinda, that create a familiar sense of progress for the players, a fresh character can kill a very powerful foe, and vice versa. It's a sweet take on character progression imho, without the D&D style level rigidity...

Like the OP, I am monogamous towards Savage Worlds, but have some flings on the side with WHFRP, CoC etc. But SW is flexible enough to do everything me and my players want, while the systems mid crunch has become very transparent for us. So I see no reason for a divorce in the foreseeable...

For D&D-style fantasy, the frames for the bard are defined but wide enough for me, so no change needed. For other systems it's impossible to answer - we have cyberpunk rockstars, space opera psionic singers, scholars and madmen trading stories about the eldritch evil in the dark between the...

I seriously dislike japanese style cartoons, moving or not. It’s probably an age thing. Nevertheless, I get really grumpy when explicit and implicit anime thingy stuff infects and poison otherwise good nerd media and games.