Recent content by prabe

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.

As someone who lives in the DC area ... you quite possibly cannot imagine how much worse it is here. (My fed contractor job vanished in 2017, I feel your wife's pain.)

For an episodic series that makes a reasonable amount of sense, especially if you have a child who's interested. For something that was telling a more unified single story, I can see at least chugging right through it, if not exactly binging. (I'll read a trilogy over three evenings, I'm not...

Right. I was parsing "feather tender" as a tool you were using to cut them with, not "cut with a feather" as modifying "tender." I hate it when my brain does me that kind of dirt.

A) I'd argue that choosing the class is the sort of choice at least some players might think of as an investment. B) There are probably ways other than fiating someone getting information to make the decision to make a character who notices things pay off. C) Most newish games I've read, played...