Recent content by Ruin Explorer

Sure, and that might have to change. It can still be a licencing agreement, but they might have to allow you to make backups or w/e, and as per the differences with the Switch 2 in US vs EU, they might not legally be able to remotely brick the game. If it was removed from the store, depending on...

Sure, but there's a reason you keep using a very bad "movie ticket" analogy instead of referring to actual game and software licences, isn't there? This isn't a situation where an analogy is needed or helps understanding. In fact it significantly mars understanding to unnecessarily use an...

It's like "Ooooh, this sounds interesting and kind of cool" and GURPS is particularly well-suited for some stuff in that vein, especially SG-1's planet-hopping. And then Errrrrrrrrr what. Why. Why in god's holy name would we possibly need 65-70 skills to do the above? Especially if we're...

Yeah that didn't even make it to Cyberpunk 2020 two years later, let alone Cybergeneration or RED! Cyberpunk 2020 has Stun/Shock Saves instead that tended to get overlooked a lot, but they're a bit different - in theory, every time you take even 1 point of damage in 2020, you have to roll 1d10...

This is the huge one for me. Throwing out essentially both initiative and actions was something that I kind of went back and forth on (strongly considering the "3 tokens" optional rule they suggested), and I think would have been very scared of had I not had good experiences with PtbA games...

Companies can say whatever they like (within legal bounds) - but it's national law that wins in the end in a specific nation (and EU nations national law must reflect EU law). Period. End of story. That's why so many EULAs and terms within them have been ruled invalid over the years. There's no...

I think you're going to be very surprised here. A lot of people like to let it ride, and that includes narratively. If you don't intervene and tell them how bad you think it is and/or house-rule it out, unless your players are very unusual, I pretty much guarantee you'll see it used within the...

If the law changes here, it would be more likely to be because the EU changed or "clarified" the law, rather than because an EU court ruled on it - I mean, that could happen, but Civil Law (in the sense, as opposed to Common Law, not as opposed to Criminal Law, sorry I didn't make up the terms)...

Whilst I basically agree - I generally think recasting is fine in principle unless a character is genuinely inseparable from an actor (which is rare but does happen imho), but, but and really this is a big but, "So long as they do a good job" is absolutely hugely load-bearing here. That's got...

Sure, I mean my issue is a bit more specific that I can't buy Mark Ruffalo as a genius of really any kind, and whilst he can do angry/bitter he hasn't really pulled that out for Banner. He's a very good actor and he's got a lot of range (c.f. his great performance in Poor Things, loved it) - he...

Oh for sure and I've seen this with a lot of games - any game with a relatively low number of rolls (including 5E and I suspect Shadowdark) has the potential for long runs of bad or good rolls. I don't think from my mighty experience of two sessions (lol) that this causes a serious problem...

I dunno about "tons" compared to yesteryear, but they certainly do make some and yes people should be watching - I know I am at least.

Yes. Fundamentally 1d3 and 2 are the same thing. Except some classes just know how much they're getting and some classes have to roll 1d6 and divide by 2 rounding up.

Absolutely. Risk It All has the potential to amplify this effect too. When the PC had to make the Death move in my game, the player had been rolling hot the whole time, he got dropped not because of bad luck, but because the player had just decided to ignore all the damage he was taking in...

Well, not a lot to add to this apart from that to say it's absolutely spot-on and covers everything I was thinking re: this issue and more eruditely at that. Particularly important re: recasting in MCU etc. is your point where there's no point risking a recast unless there's a very major...