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My fav old school jrpgs are Chrono Trigger, FF6 (FF3 in US), FF7, FF Tactics, FF Tactics Advanced 1 &2. Newer games are Persona 5, Octopath Traveler 1 and 2, Triangle Strategy, Valkyria Chronicles 1 and 4. Edit: Forgot Fire Emblem Three Houses. That was a great game.

Active time battle

To be fair, modern tactical games didn't exist in the old days either lol

I guess it depends how you play. The game I play in is in Foundry, which puts everything on the sheet. But I can certainly see a case where players might enjoy something more tactile.

Looks like it's into the testing phase. I'm looking forward to it, too.

Aside from the collecting aspect, it seems like a niche product. You need to be already invested in the core game You need to be playing the game in person You need more than the supplied core cards for whatever reason (more than one group, similar abilities in a group, etc) No one is going to...

Fun read, not the best reference manual. Then again, most good GM guides are the same...

Right, facsimile. They can only create an illusion that looks real. Not create a work of art, but instead a xerox of the mona lisa. While it will be an excellent tool to fool people, that's about the extent of the tech. Something different will be needed for the singularity.

Eh, LLMs still are just sophisticated regurgitation machines. They have no logic whatsoever, to the point that an Atari 2600 with 2kb memory can destroy it in a chess match.

Sorry, I'll use more 25 cent words to describe AI detritus next time. lol

All I can say is, sorry that you've experienced this. I wouldn't spend more than one session in a game like that. And a video game would be much preferred over AI slop.

Not wrong. Also, most of his "playing wrong" rants were really "stop using 3rd party rules" rants.

It probably says that buying 3 core sets is better value than a full set of these :D

1e run strictly by-the-book is pretty crunchy. 1e run the way most people run/ran it could be considered rules lite lol

Was this tongue-in-cheek? VTTs aren't run with algorithms and preset PC/NPC conversations.

True. I guess there are different types of complexity: level of math vs lists of abilities to choose from, frex. Automation helps for the former, does nothing for the latter.

As a VTT user, I find that automation doesn't help a lot with complexity, it only really helps with speed of play. It might help with elegant vs unwieldy games, but I think that's a different discussion.

Wowzers, Mission X is certainly built on GURPS... "consolidated list of 65-70 skills" o_O The nice thing about Xcom is how elegant and streamlined the mechanisms are. Not sure if that's important for the OP, but it certainly would be for me.

I used Everyday Heroes to play 5e-esque Xcom style game a few years ago. Tactical enough without getting too much into the weeds. Granted, this was before Evil Genius games turned problematic...

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