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Probably didn't understand how a <100% effective vaccine could manage herd immunity, then.

Yes, it does. I'm open to the idea it's wrong about that, and to the idea the categories overlap. My experience of it was very authorial, all the way, which might have been different from yours, and might go some way toward our thinking as to which category or categories it belongs in (or at...

I haven't played Firebrands, but I don't think Showdown deserves scare-quotes around calling it a story game--it's clearly built to make a story, and a specific kind of story. That's not slagging on it--it's a well-constructed and enjoyable game.

Evergreen post.

This took me longer to get than I'm happier about--but I'd mostly stopped listening to their new stuff by then.

Q: How many members of a band does it take to change a light bulb? A: One. The the one-named singer holds the bulb in the socket and the world revolves around him. (Yes, there's a different one-named singer this also applies to.)

I guess people should call on Any Other Day?

Blades in the dark calls them successes--in that graphic upthread, they're not in the "bad outcome" bundles--and tells the players they have a fifty percent chance of succeeding at a thing, even with just the one die. If those mixed outcomes don't feel like successes, that can very easily feel...

Well, mixed outcomes almost never feel exactly like success to me, which means games that intentionally center that outcome in the probability rarely feel awesome to me in play. I'd probably feel less like the game was lying to me if it just called those "partial failures."

Yeah, he's the GM. And I'm enjoying it more than I probably make it sound. I haven't bothered with Deep Cuts, but I get the sense it changes a lot of the choices at the heart of the game. There will of course be mixed opinions on that.

My experience is that it's the tale of the characters persistently failing to get anywhere, unable to do anything without making multiple other things worse, while being ground to dust. Fun!

We get bad results more than 75% of the time, no matter how many dice are in on the thing. It's seriously Stepping on Rakes: The Role Playing Game.

Blades in the Dark capably and amply serves my needs in this area.

I would add that the additional weight Blades tends to put on single given rolls can make the game seem more swingy than D&D, especially given the much-reduced options for the GM to moderate results. I mean, my experience of Blades is persistently stepping on rakes, as we both know. :LOL:

It might depend on the rest of the person, as well, of course. You probably shouldn't tolerate me blathering about IT stuff, but I at least hope I might have strengths in other areas.

Yeah, probably. I guess my point is I'm (much) less of a fan of it than I used to be. At least by default, if that makes sense.

Yeah, there's middle ground between not being a sap and not being an asshat, and I'm working on landing there more than I used to. (I suspect a lot of "doesn't suffer fools gladly" starts from "feeling like a sap," but I have no evidence for the position that isn't autobiographical.)

There is a phrasing that comes up from time to time, "does not suffer fools gladly," that I used to think meant someone was awesomely smart and clever and had no patience for people who weren't; now I think it tends to mean they treat people badly. I'm working on ... not treating people badly...

Science does seem to be a particular target this time around, yes. I worked recording audiobooks for the Library of Congress (National Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped) and the hit that took felt like ditching a program that helped people.