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Because you said: And I'm sorry mate, but $10k is not a "pretty good Kickstarter", nor really is $50k when we're talking about comparisons with IP-based games with Kickstarters like $1.7m (Blade Runner). That a what, 170x difference? Is that right? That's like not comparing yourself to Usain...

What parts of these, exactly, do you cite as supporting your contention? I mean, it doesn't superficially appear that you've read them, because they're not immediately pertinent.

I don't necessarily disagree on that, but absolutely not a single word of it supports the "base-10 matters a lot!!!" contention I was writing about.

Whilst I kind of get it, especially for "premier TV"-type shows, it's a real pity, because so few shows have a chance to breath now. It's no wonder people, even younger people, keep going back to older shows with slower pacing and more exploration of characters and so on.

D&D 5E would count. We don't count out D&D, we say that D&D, especially 5E, was insanely successful, but on the terms of "Being the best-known game in the industry, backed up by a massive corporation". Even then, 5E - insanely successful. Not solely due to WotC's efforts, to be clear, but that's...

Yeah and the fact that some games, you wouldn't even want a VTT for them complicates matters further. Like, I can't imagine using a "rules-working" VTT for any PtbA or BitD game, or Spire or Heart or something, the value you'd gain compared to the effort required to make a VTT that isn't Owlbear...

It's the least-worst one imho, that's for sure (I had to check which one it was - it's the recent-ish Modiphus one, right? I do have the 2017 version and lot of sourcebooks thanks to Humble Bundle). I guess if the others wrecked on the rocks, it merely punctures the hull and has to evacuate a...

Personally funky dice are a hard red line for me. A couple of reasons for this: 1) No king rules forever, and most don't rule very long at all. I've often played RPGs 10 or more years after they were published, and had a good time, and if a game is designed around funky dice, it makes it that...

In a vacuum, it is equally valid I agree. However, if you intentionally choose to play a game you know isn't designed that way, and doesn't really support that mode of play then it is less valid in that particular context. Like, if I play MASKS, and then get mad that it genuinely doesn't handle...

How do you think this MFer dragged me through four books lol? :) I agree he could write a hell of a magic fight scene. I am quite glad Sanderson managed to combine "incredible fight scenes" and "great magic systems" with "incredibly boring books full of people I don't care about and who are...

No. That's just denialism, and by that logic no game since about 2016 has been at all successful, and no previous editions of D&D were even slightly successful (including the 1980s peak). Either success is relative, or it isn't. Pick a lane. For a system that was made by a handful of people...

I don't think they do though in any way that matters to this. I don't they think in a base at all for "small" math (which certainly includes up to 20), and I don't think that, without at least some attempt at science here, we can make claim as extreme as "d20s and d10s just make more sense to...

You say you've "seen a number", and my instinctive inclination was to agree, then I looked on Kickstarter just to find some funny examples to mock for us, and I'm not really seeing any actual examples! We look at the "pretty good Kickstarter" range (what, like north of $100k? higher?) that...

Yeah that felt kind of funny, like maybe that was written before the earlier scene? Because in the earlier scene, he's pushing for an away team to go down, but he doesn't even really get to finish his speech before the planet blows up, so like, buddy, I don't think anyone saw that coming. I...

Facts not in evidence. Without a source for this claim, I don't think you can rely on it, especially many human cultures used a base-12 system for thousands and thousands of years. I don't think most people "think in base 10" to that degree at all, nor that it impacts what dice work for them...

I disagree quite strongly. He's an apparent nihilist and a "neuroscience" bollocks artist. His most recent deal is he's obsessed with nearly conspiracy-theory level absolute nonsense stuff he's made up in "neuroscience" - all unprovable, unfalsifiable stuff with no apparent basis in existing...

The revolver is easy but important to tweak even for Drylands, just change the mechanics from the needlessly fiddly (and fictional-positioning-limiting - you can never, ever, ever "fan the hammer", for example): Six Shot: Place 6 Ammo tokens on your character sheet. Spend 1 Ammo token to make...

I feel like my RED FLAG sensor was just working really well when I read the first one, because the combination of both glorified and exploited sexual violence (in various configurations) with certain other factors (attitudes of characters, terrible names) told me the writer and any further books...

LOL that is very true.

Sure but you've got to think about how TV shows are written, especially when different writers are the primary writers. Like I said, if we don't see it mentioned again, I guess we do have to assume they just dropped it - and sometimes that is the right thing to do because maybe a character...