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Thanks, @TheSword !

I agree - people shouldn’t be hasty to declare something intolerable. But having made that declaration, then they should move away from it. If they want to keep talking about it, then there should be some possibility they decide it’s okay. Topic and action should line up, one way or the other...

“In the end”? Nothing ever ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

I have a pair of related reactions. 1. It’s fine to have bright red lines that tell you can expect not to have a good time if you go further. But then you should STOP, disengage, and go out your attention onto something else. Continuing may be necessary for, say, work, or academic analysis, or...

Color me curious how far you’ve tweaked the mechanics to suit the world, and/or the world to suit the mechanics. (I say this after having spent a toor-early morning thinking about the Realms with psionics rather than magic.)

World of Warcraft and City of Heroes both did for a while. Great times, but eventually two things led me away: 1. Ever-increasing complexity at the top end (which is where the new stuff is), past first my level of comfort and then my level of competence. I simply cannot play as well as the...

John Scalzi has blogged about how writing for audio has affected his writing in general. As usual with him, it’s friendly and casual-seeming over some impressive analysis of craft. https://www.audible.com/blog/john-scalzi-writing-for-audio-made-me-a-better-writer-period

I was just distracted by the thought of Marvel Super-Heroes (FASERIP) or the Awfully Cheery Engine (Ghostbusters) for a campaign in the Old World, maybe even Enemy Within. Don’t mind me.

Rather than “aimless”, I think the useful antonym might be something like “unlinked”. There’s a book about the design of the Wild Wide Web and the layers underneath it titled Small Pieces Loosely Joined; the author holds this up as a good idea not just for the Web but for any. Network of thought...

Sounds good. And yeah, Steve Kenson likes to try out genuinely different mechanics.

Any difficulties with the Psychic’s Handbook in a sci-fi context?

I have not. But now I’ll look it up.

Andy Serkis does all the songs, in widely varying styles, in his audiobook readings.

That is a wonderful take and I’m adopting it immediately.

I’m given to understand we’re different people. :) I like these threads where people get to share their opinions and not jump on others for being wrong. That said, this is a favorite example of mine in the campaign possibilities of Fate Accelerated, using Batman: Year One as an example...

Since it came up, here’s Thomas Ligotti’s prose poem “Autumnal”:

We were doing that in Over the Edge in 1998, while waiting for Mind’s Eye Theatre sessions to start. Someone I knew claimed to have done it earlier in Theatrix, but their logs showed it was all just Lacanian BS, more or less Zizek avant la lettre.

I turned 60 today. Fair to say that this is not anything like anything I imagined at 15 or 30. Or 45, for that matter.

And in my experience, the most successful campaigns pretty much all go unplanned directions along their way.

Hmm. Separate thoughts, first on designers I’d expect any reasonably fair observer to acknowledge as important trailblazers whether or not the observer happens to personally like the results. At the top of the list, Greg Stafford, whose name here should be set in large type, blood, italic, and...