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At a very basic level, it's pretty simple. Players will repeatedly throw at me doubtful propositions where the outcome isn't obvious or necessarily predictable. I need the system to provide strong guidelines for resolving those propositions in a way that is plausible and supports creation of a...

I gave up eight or nine years ago on trying to get someone to see sense if they don't seem to be making sense, not just here but everywhere. The effort required on my part is never worth the rare rewards when someone goes, "Wait... I think I see your point now." Saves a lot of frustration and...

I now know you've never driven a big rig. Just because something is ordinary doesn't mean it isn't heroic. That they are "doing what needs to be done" is a heck an endorsement, especially when it's something dangerous. Saying someone is "not getting something" is a really lazy way to say you...

We're going to have to agree to disagree on that. Are you saying Bodi isn't an awesome superhero? Are you saying Cassian isn't an awesome superhero. I think maybe you are missing the point. The point is that you don't need super powers to be a super hero. If you compare the show to Rogue...

The writers were forced to treat the Rebels cartoon as canon. You should hear their quotes about the quality of the writing in "Rebels". Totally justified, but it's what we got. There was some really sharp writing where the Deedra and Syril relationship was being held up as parallel to the...

It was good, but it was not as well written as season 1 and managed to be both a slow burn and feel rushed. The biggest problem with it is the lack of emotional payoffs. All the stories are just let downs with no dramatic tension, often with characters seemingly dying to get written out of the...

An everyman who doesn't adventure is a Commoner. Once you start adventuring you typically become something else, but an everyman adventurer is a Paragon.

I'm taking a lot of Traveller about how small independent freighters work and porting it into my Star Wars game. Star Wars has much more powerful and less realistic(?) jump technology (one of the major differences between science fiction and science fantasy is sci-fi pays attention to where the...

It actually sees play at the table is my general standard. For a typical hardback book, I will consider it "worth it" if I use more than 5 pages worth of material at some point. Few purchases withstand this critique.

It's probably closer to 2/3rds even if you play conservatively according to the MM treasure tables and more like 90% if you play published modules which have loot distributions intended very much to allow them to be adventure paths, in that if you finish them you'll level up sufficiently to play...

Something said in the May the 4th thread about celebrating Star Wars RPGs triggered my curiosity and that's how much do you allow canon characters to interact with (and potentially overshadow) PCs and how much do you rely on your own characters? Which canon characters have you used in your...

Hunters stop a bank heist

Actually, I can't believe I didn't remember to list this scene: #6: Hunters versus the Gendarme SWAT Team: https://www.enworld.org/threads/describe-your-last-rpg-session-in-more-than-5-words.687540/page-11#post-9265935

Best scenes from the now 3-year-old campaign: 1) Assault on the Plantation House: This came up as one of the players favorite memories. Early in the campaign the Bounty Hunters were assigned to recover a smuggler who friendly witness against a corrupt Prefect who had mysteriously vanished from...

I've got two crowd funding purchases for Mothership, which is funny because I don't own the base game. One is a supplement on bounty hunters and the other is a supplement for derlict space craft. I'm planning to use both to help provide ideas for gameplay in my ongoing Star Wars bounty hunter...

I'm a 3.0e player though I have been playing since the early 80s and have some familiarity with the Basic/Expert and 1e AD&D versions of the game. It sounds to me like you have very specific opinions on how the game should be played, and accordingly it doesn't feel in your questions like you...

Yes. This is something Gygaxian D&D considered very little, and more recent versions of D&D didn't consider at all, with the result that if you take the magic in the setting seriously, then global economies should look radically different from what is portrayed in D&D source books. The setting...

I prefer the world to be both explainable and comprehensible. While I love weird, and for example think that Nitro Ferguson's idea of basing the gods of his world on 20th century pop stars is very cool, what is not cool is Nitro's desire to play "gotcha" with his players and keep them in a...

Ion torpedoed a fertilizer truck

I don't understand what this means. I don't disagree with that claim but unless you were using very extensive house rules or played only a few times at 1st level, the claims I made in my post would apply to any way you played 1e AD&D.