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No, but it could still have been, you know, good.

I think of that as a different problem. Bad writing and layout can obfuscate even relatively simple systems, and RPGs are notorious in this regard because there is a long history of pumping the word count. I don't think unconnected subsystems built for specific play instances/domains really...

Season 4 was such an improvement over the previous 2, I sort of figured we would see at least that level of quality in 5. But in the end, it was a vain hope; television shows, especially ones that are fandom phenoms, rarely stick the landing. It is one of those shows that would have been better...

You don't have to unsell me on it; I already hated it.

That is... huh. Glad you liked it, I guess.

One hopes, but we shall likely never see a real 6E...

Not the first time, either. I think we had a litereal "are force points metacurrency" thread a while back.

No you don't. You spend a resource to reroll or whatever. They don't need to provide any narrative control. They don't even have to be metagame if "luck" or "the force" are real things in the fiction.

Bennies etc are not narrative mechanics. ETA: not necessarily narrative mechanics.

I just need to highlight this. ::chef's kiss::

I wouldn't even give LevelUp a full point boost. I trust your ability to extrapolate. You can do it!

Sure there are some people that did not like that aspect, but I don't think they are the majority. Most people realized it just wasn't very good. I mean, there was a whole movement of people who decided that the final episode must have been a dream and Netflix was going to drop the REAL finale...

I am pretty sure that is what I wrote when I said "there are lots of solutions."

Round Up For JUSTICE.

4? Something around there. I am trying to think of some hidden complexity.

I put PF2 above PF1 mostly because of the density of Tags, as well as little modifiers and lots of conditions. But the distance between them is not that great, just a little different.

I am not sure why you would need "narrative" mechanics for that. There are lots of solutions to the design problem. One of the easiest is to give the non-Jedi more drama points/bennies/luck/whatever. Buffy did this and it worked great.

Well, if the new players won't know, no worries... Look, all I can say is that for me and my players, it is a worse version of the rules and less fun to play. They spent all that time "playtesting" and the results were sub-par.

Sure. Now why screwing up half the spells?