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And so is the cast. {ba-dum--tsh} (In all seriousness, kudos to the showrunners to committing to using traditional costuming/makeup to de-age the cast for flashbacks/time travel/whatever they need it for.)

No, not always. Again, broadly speaking. I certainly want my final copy of Stonetop to have solid 'successful harvest' rules (as that is quite reasonably going to be an important outcome in the expected setting). But I also want its 'fighting' and 'climbing sheer surfaces' and 'leaping...

I see we're at the Dwight-Schrute-impersonation level of pointless pedantry now.

Broadly speaking, it isn't. That was the point. We play games to have characters go on some kind of adventure, and thus build mechanics that play out (have success and failure rates) that work for adventures.

I brought that up in a previous post in the thread. Fate and the like are good at modelling 'dramatic' people or people on the most exciting days of their lives and showcase this with things like incentivizing people to fail at their personal weaknesses. GURPS looks like it models real people in...

Well, I don't think that of overgeeked, nor I think the other person I noted saying it here. However, yeah, it's beginning to take on connotations. Kinda like 'strawman' and the Latinate logical fallacies 20-odd years ago -- yeah, when it is used appropriately (as in, the person leveraging it is...

Unrelated to your specific person/behavior of frustration (to which you attach an actual point about their behavior), I fear that 'touch grass' is quickly becoming the next 'triggered,' 'edgelord,' or 'live in your parent's basement' (particularly the first). It's the kind of thing any side of a...

Pre-emptive note: I'm going to be leaning on 3e references, as that is what I have the most experience with. I think the primary logic is that one major reason why a person/group would pick up GURPS is that they were thinking of playing D&D or an OSR D&D, but one person in the group suggested...

I also remember an incident with the webcomic Sluggy Freelance (near the height of its popularity) where someone correctly guessed what would happen next, and, when it proceeded to come to pass as they predicted, accused the author of nicking their idea. From then on, the author only frequented...

Every time I'm tempted to do this, I rewatch the "don't touch my records" scene from Diner.

The actual amount of differences that between LBB OD&D plus Supp. I in 1975 and pre-Player's Options AD&D 2nd edition (1994-) is small enough that a DM houserule could dwarf them in impact. It's never been about specifics. BX get sthe focus because it covers the level range (1 through...

I don't think that most of this is serious calls for the game to be massively changed (they've already said they are changing so little that the page references won't change), so much as 'this is what I think they would need to change about GURPS to make it preferable to me.' I've certainly...

Ooh, now I want a sci fi game where I can play a Motie lawyer.

It's probably wrong of me, but I so want you to follow this up with, "...and that's how they got together. They've been married now for 11 years."

Gretchen, what have we discussed?

I think the character point system 'works best' when it is declared as being an artificial economy meaning you can't take everything and curb any other inferences as much as possible. I feel it works best for introducing a group to the system, and the inevitable min-maxxer showing where it...

We've all been through this rigmarole before, and we've all delt with unclear appeals to authority. It is not our job to sort through another 250 page thread to figure out where you are getting your numbers, or what numbers they actually are. What are the two things you are comparing, and...

They kind of remind me of the Weisman Art Museum (which I love, but would not want to drive to work every day). I guess that means to me they seem more Deconstructivist, which seems appropriate given their safety record and recalls.

To me, they just look like someone from some time ago's idea of what 'futuristic' things would look like. Like, apparently the original Transformers cartoon movie from 1986 was set in 2005, and had transformers that turned into 'modern for 2005' vehicles, and their idea about what that would...

Apparently that is the case. She turned down a full time role and instead Keiko became a recurring character. I get it -- regardless of how much you like the biz, full time scripted tv shows of that era were 100+ hr/week jobs, and I believe she had young children at the time. Chao certainly did...