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I agree with all that. Not sure where you are going with this. Like Galadriel, I don't understand what you here mean by the word "magical". Accessing the force is perceived as magic by the unlearned because they don't understand it, and they call the things that they don't understand...

I'm not very familiar with Burning Wheel, but I am familiar with Mouseguard. The metacurrencies in Mouseguard are really quite weak and are as you say there to mitigate somewhat against the odds being stacked against the player. I'm not really a fan of Luke Crane as a designer, but in this...

As I played the game, this is correct. A M-U in melee combat could not cast a spell. In 3e D&D terms trying to cast a spell in melee drew an attack of opportunity, and a successful hit automatically ruined the spell. Concentration checks or combat casting just didn't exist. Spell-casters in...

That's kind of my point exactly. Kenobi had a lot more riding on resolving the issue without conflict than his own personal safety. As such, I would have warned Kenobi's player he's treading a gray line and to be careful, but I wouldn't have treated this as an example of using a Force Power in...

Tell me more. For example, by the time you had played 7-8 years, how big were the top end dice pools of the players? By the RAW there are no caps on how big a dice pool can get. My suspicion is that the game then comes down to Aunt Mae can defeat Galactus if she has 3-5 fate points to spend...

Well first of all, there are no Jedi in this game. This is set during the early years of Rise of the Empire, and any surviving Jedi right now are being hunted down and killed by Darth Vader and his minions. And the entire party is Bounty Hunters working as official and licensed Imperial...

I mean they don't. Like at this point the can take down an entire platoon of Stormtroopers and that's using an attribute array for Stormtroopers much higher than what is suggested in the base game. In my game a Stormtrooper is pretty darn elite. But we are way past the point where...

Let me try to refocus the discussion by focusing on the mechanics of what a force point does. It doubles your dice pools for the round. The nature of doubling is the more powerful you are, the more powerful a force point is. If your dice pool only has 2D in it, then a force point only gives...

As a practical matter, the "dramatically appropriate moments" in the campaign have come down to two types of actions. Using a force point to save the life of someone other than yourself in a dramatic fashion (Luke swinging with Leia over the artificial canyon in A New Hope) or to defeat the...

You are making unwarranted assumptions here. The PC wasn't gambling with the smuggler for profit. The PC was trying to befriend the smuggler who was also a noted gambler in order to get information about the location of a separatist Battlecruiser operating in the area. Although the PC didn't...

You only start with one of them and they must be used for a heroic task. If they are used for a heroic task in a dramatic way, you not only get one back, but your pool grows by one. If you use them for a non-heroic task, then you lose them permanently. The trouble of course is that they are...

I was moving in the other direction before I gave up in frustration with how enormous my house rules were becoming. I had moved to a 10 segment round to be more coherent.

For a long time I had considered the WEG D6 Force Point to be one of the more elegant mechanics in gaming. My positive impression of it was formed very early, from the first time I saw one used in my very first WEG Star Wars game more than 30 years ago. We were all for the most part playing...

Not hit to me but I'm happy to field it as well, even at the risk of colliding in the outfield and making the blooper real. a) We did not convert to yards for area of effect outdoors. Unsure if that is RAW or not given the lack of clarity and agreement in the text. b) Yes. Also we had to...

a) In theory it would be but I don't recall anyone doing so. b) I only recall ever adopting one rule from 1e AD&D and then dropping it. Generally when I discovered a rule I liked it. A good example of this is that after a few years of play I finally figured out what the "Weapon vs. AC"...

No. Not at all. Rather, this is Gary telling you about his own campaign style (which he assumes everyone is ultimately headed toward) which is what a modern gamer would describe as "West Marches" style. And under that style, absolutely it is true that you can't have a meaningful campaign...

This doesn't seem to me to address any problems I actually have at the table. This to me looks like pure theory crafting. A lot of this reminds me of my theory crafting and design back in the 1990s and I got to tell you, you aren't designing rules for a table top social roleplaying game. You...

There are two things going on, particularly in the 1e AD&D DMG. One, Gygax gives some of the strongest examples of play and descriptions of play in any rulebook ever written. That passage with the party investigating a dungeon that ends in one of them getting randomly eaten by a ghoul with...

~$189-$270 US. That's 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 silver pieces, or an equivalent number of gold pieces if you use a gold piece standard where everything is normally priced in gold pieces. A good test is how much is a dagger. If you price a knife or dagger in gold pieces, then it's highly likely 1 gold...

So I am going to cut against the grain by saying it is imperative everyone in the group is seeing roughly the same thing in their head. Players are taking actions and asking questions based on the scene they imagine in their head. Sometimes it is not clear for several minutes that those...