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dear lord, i missed one day of visiting this thread and i ended up catching up on it for days.

i'll figure out my actual list later sometime, but something i'm noticing is that in alot of the manoeuvres the maneuvre dice roll doesn't do much for them besides act as currency to use it in the first place and add a little damage equal to the roll, and for those that do actually use the roll...

too true unfortunately

isn't this sort of thing what the Flaws part of BITF's were meant to invoke? except nobody ever used them

honestly i couldn't ever keep track of which method was prepared and which was known or memorized, and which method was meant to work which way so making them all the same terminology with just class specific change intervals is an improvement in my eyes.

it seems the opposite to me, if the game is being driven by the gm then how would events ever not turn out how they are expecting? the players drive things, however it is the GM's very purpose to construct the world and try predict and plan for the things the players are going to do and...

i was going to reply but it's not worth it.

no, i do mean the thing that i said in the way that i said it, 'all supernatural is a subset of magic' feels backwards in the same way 'all light is a subset of UV' does

i'm not sure what 'same reason' is meant to go here and make sense, especially as they didn't remove the concept of subspecies as a whole, just from certain species natural telepathy is something that seems a little more than cultural to me, but not enough for a different species entirely...

i really can't comprehend why they decided to remove sub-species from some of the lineages cause then you end up having to resort to doing things like this.

they aren't the same thing, no, but i don't think the spirit of them is so different either, the only thing i would need to change in the former would be altering 'combat' to 'direct engagement' and they become pretty darn similar, and i think the former is only phrased that way by flaw of...

oh for sure, i'm not trying to calling individual EXP wrong by any measure, except perhaps as the assumed norm to compare milestone to.

what does it matter what specific percentage of encounters are combats in which specific system, they're still all encounters.

i think any disparity between the two is solved by considering the original context of @Maxperson 's quote and assuming it probably should have been stated as 'Encounter hasn't solely meant combat for decades' rather than taking it at literal word-for-word value minus context.

i mean, how much does modern EXP levelling incentivize those things either? i admit i'm a bit out of touch with how people are actually playing right now and fully admit i might be wildly wrong but i get the impression that for the most part groups are functionally treated as a single...

if you can avoid creatures by choosing to take a different path, be that a completely divergent route, a roundabout side path or sneaking past in close vicinity, how does that not make the creatures a location based event? a traffic jam involves creatures, in fact, if the creatures weren't there...

i agree with what you're saying but i think the issue most lies in that initial statement for some people, 'everything supernatural is a derivative of magic' feels like a backwards classification to us in the same way that 'the entire EM spectrum is a derivative of ultra-violet' feels backwards.

typically, it's distinct due to the standard power organizations and techniques of dealing with magic users don't include or work on psionics, this makes it a bit of an X-factor in the world, yes it's just as powerful and does most of the same things as magic and that's part of the point, but it...

i made a similar list myself for the 2014 spells, here it is if you're curious

i think the primary hits would be: telepathy and mind reading, hypnosis and mind control, psychic 'mind crushing' attacks. telekinesis (dipping into flight if used on self.) energy manipulation: ranged blasts, enhanced strikes and shields/forcefields, primarily pure energy, but pyro, cryo and...