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No, I think there are people on both sides who think they've suggested are compromises. Its just that the exemplars on the other side find those compromises beyond their red lines. That can happen; where the acceptable limits of compromise do not in fact have any overlap, and as such, are not...

I somewhat agree, but I'll note one side is much more likely to get criticized for the failure than the other.

This is because you think that compromise "would work" and they don't. You feel its a functional compromise where they don't; they have ideas they think are a functional compromise you don't. If only one side gets to decide what "would work" that's not a compromise even if that side thinks so...

Well, yeah, if you have no control over where attributes land, its going to be hard to do that. Two things though: since you don't do other elements of character design until after that roll, there's probably some class or other character structure that can be fit around the cruddy attribute...

I'm not hostile in principal to some application of AI tools, but like most things, bad product is bad no matter whether it was human, machine or hybrid produced.

This has interested me enough that I'll probably pick this up at some point to read if nothing else.

If you've got an array setup that sets at least one score sub-normal, I don't know what to call placing that score in the place it will least matter other than a dump score. Its "dumping" the low stat after all.

For whatever reason, I think Sadie Sink would make a better Rachel than a Jean.

That's the problem though. The players aren't a single unit most of the time. Maybe on of them wants to play a tortle. Maybe one wants to play a dragonborn. Maybe two want to play other things a GM might not want, but aren't going to push on the issue because they're used to being shut down...

Ah, wasn't aware there were other than the 13th Age versions. Its an odd book in a number of ways.

I think at least some of the answer to this question turns on whether you consider (in traditional games) the power dynamic in the two symmetrical. I've expressed my opinion on that enough times I don't feel a need to belabor it.

The only issue I'd suggest is that Cortex really, really wants to compress scope more than those games do. Whether that's significant is in the eye of the beholder, of course.

I think it worked better with Chill because it had multiple degrees of success, so you could regulate not just whether they got information, but how much. As a default, Hero only had success/failure; Chill had five cases (even the optional rules for Hero only gave four, and I think the extra...

I think there are real problems with binary yes-or-no creating dead ends in trad games. There are other solutions to that than the Gumshoe approach; I personally prefer the approach they did in Chill 3e where a skill roll always gets you some information, just of varied amounts (and mixed with...

Is that specific to the approach Brindlewood Bay? I'm curious because it seems an odd statement for investigative games in-general.

What I'd phrase it as is Hero is no worse than most trad games for investigation--but that's very much damning with faint praise.

Proper management of the phase chart is a bit of an art, even with proper tools.

Well, part of that is the price of Hero going full generic-system at one point. I think Robot Warriors back in the day did as or more credible a job than any of the crunch-oriented mecha games. Including sometimes doing it and discovering what you've done just doesn't work the way you hope it...

Its a vicious cycle though; people who see it at one end tend to do it at the other, and I'm not convinced the power dynamic is symmetrical.

There's also me who plays/runs games, but also has a limited playtime, and well, lifespan but still like reading interesting games (sometimes things I'd never run, sometimes ones I would but may well never have time).