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His stand-up is pretty good, too. If you’re into spreadsheets.

Well, we are shown that she has a pretty significant inferiority complex from being continually told to stay down when she is knocked down in her life and that it has fostered in her a stubborn streak that won’t do so (and frankly also a tendency to display a bit of anti-authoritarian push-back...

I’m not going to argue that Captain Marvel was the best film Marvel has to offer, but I have to wonder if you and I even watched the same movie. In the version I saw, it took Danvers the entire film to finally break through her Kree conditioning to become better than everyone else. And getting...

These days I replace the pretty terrible (and in my experience, forgettable) inspiration mechanic with a free Lucky feat* for everyone at first level. This solves three problems for me. First, not having to grade my players’ role-playing as is expected by the inspiration rules. As a DM, that...

My assumption is that the Darkhold never showed her any such versions.

A quick look at this thread tells me that posts 1, 2, 4, 6, 11, 13, 14, and 15 are pretty much where I was at personally. But I’m just one guy.

Sorry to disappear on you guys but I’ve taken on an intensive writing project that has really taken a toll on me for reasons. I won’t be able to continue to participate in the development, nor serve as a judge, but I would like to compete (and will probably need a distraction). I think the...

We really wouldn’t want it to run into the tournament, though. Especially because this is intended to be a longer format. My guess is that three judges could finalize the rules and get the recruitment started within a couple of weeks. The question is going to be: How many people can commit to...

If any of you are still interested in helping to make this happen this year, now’s the time.

Well, the time has come to see if anyone is actually interested enough in this to help make it happen. Any takers?

Yeah. I don’t think they would actually show Tom Cruise in a teaser even if he was really in the movie. I mean, this is Marvel we’re talking about! They go to great lengths to scrub people out of their trailers! There’s no way they put a reveal that in a tv teaser! They just spent a year making...

I would suggest that the Order of the Stick comic does a better job of it than the tippyverse. The tippyverse (as far as I remember) kind of assumes that the only choices that have ever been made in the setting’s historical evolution have been purely optimal. But actual historical social...

This so good, I’d like it again if I could. But, hey, OP has posted again in this thread, so at least there’s a workaround.

I think such a setting would look a lot like our real, techno-mancy-based world. Almost every single one of us carries around and uses a smartphone with no real understanding of how it functions or what human and environmental resources were exploited in its construction. We have means of...

Of course. But, more importantly, they are examples. The examples are what teach the game and the portion of the game that these examples teach is mostly terrible. Those who learn this part of the game through these examples are thus incentivized to ignore it.

I might also add that many (if not most) of the example bonds provided to us are terrible. Usually, they could be better expressed as a personality trait, ideal, or a flaw and they are almost always so far removed from things that matter to the game that integrating them into a campaign in any...

For, say, a four person party, that’s up to 8 minutes per round. Plus the time it takes to resolve all of those actions. Plus all of the NPC actions. That does not sound like a quick combat to me. In any edition. Nevermind that some players simply will not be put on a clock like that. Or will...

The last session I ran was 100% resolution of downtime actions. The next one or two probably will be, too. That’s not the norm, though. Most of the games I run involve actual adventuring, combat included. But I run theater of the mind and most of my combats are quickly-handled skirmishes...

Ne’er-do-well.