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This might be a matter of taste, but I think their games rely a little too heavily on their various push mechanics. I remember having a discussion over on a Swedish RPG forum about probabilities and how even someone with fairly high stat+skill would often fail, particularly on things requiring...

I'm thinking it's because hunting or foraging is something you primarily do for yourself, and then expanded to your family and/or tribe. You go off, throw a spear at a deer, and then you have a dead deer to eat. A profession is doing something for someone else and then getting something in return.

I mean, that makes sense really. You hear a few songs by an artist and they strike a chord (heh) in you, so you look for more of that artist. Works they make close to the first ones you hear will probably sound fairly similar, and you already like that stuff. But if they change later (or if they...

Oldest profession and so on.

Yeah, that's a class act. I've seen some games recommend other games from the same company, but not competitors.

IME, Mutant: Year Zero and games based on that engine are more swingy than most dice pool systems because you only succeed on a 6 on a d6. This compresses the results a lot. To use Gorgon Zee's example with 8 dice vs 2, that gives you about a 27% chance of a tie and about 8% of a win for the 2...

I'm on a Savage Worlds kick myself at the moment, running an East Texas University campaign. I've been looking at the Savage Pathfinder stuff, and particularly the campaigns, and found them unsatisfying, likely due to the limitations of the license. The license lets PEG do conversions of...

Someone's home, sometimes the GM's and sometimes a player's. I have a regular game on Wednesdays which is almost always hosted by a particular player. Sometimes he GMs, but usually not. I have another mostly regular game on Saturdays, which has recently mostly been board games as we lost one...

Crabs trying to climb over one another to get out of the bucket, man.

Not necessarily. Trying to learn a motivation/pitfall without outright asking is a power roll using Reason, Intuition, or Presence. 11- means no info and lose a Patience, 12-16 is no effect, and 17+ you learn something. Of course, just asking can never hurt.

The usual: creatures can have vulnerability or immunity (somewhat poorly named, more like resistance) to various damage types. The Dragon Knight's ancestral trait Wyrmplate gives them immunity equal to their level to a chosen element, for example.

I don't think there are mechanics for it in the book but you could certainly learn things like "Sir Roxers is known throughout town for his lavish lifestyle" which would indicate that Revelry is one of his motivations.

Uuhy uuould you do such a thing?

Draw Steel does allow for setting non-murder goals for an encounter – perhaps ironically because of its explicit gamist focus. One of the encounters in the demo adventure Road to Brockhurst has two possible win conditions: kill enough goblins that the rest disperse, or get the party's wagon...

Then it probably isn't the game for you. The game is unapologetically "Tactical Heroic Cinematic Fantasy". This is not a Swiss Army Knife of a game that can do a lot of things adequately. It does the thing it does, and (presumably – I haven't had the opportunity to actually play yet) it does it...

Here's an example from the demo adventure Road to Brockhurst: Interest 1 means that Gogellwyc starts out fairly unlikely to help. If they can get him to 2, he will point out an alternate route, and at 3 or higher he'll allow them through his territory (at a cost at 3). Patience 5 means the PCs...

The tag line on the website is "Launch into an exciting universe of science fantasy adventure with the Starfinder Roleplaying Game! Create and customize your own futuristic hero to play through challenging adventures and action-packed battles against dangerous foes! Welcome to the best launchpad...

One thing I in theory like about negotiations is that they've formalized motivations/pitfalls into 12 rough categories: benevolence, discovery, freedom, greed, higher authority, justice, legacy, peace, power, protection, revelry, and vengeance. These can be expressed in different ways – among...