Recent content by Staffan

The problem with that is that the only way to age-gate access to services is to require identification. Which is, of course, the whole reason they're doing that to begin with – protecting the children is just a pretext.

Birds of Prey?

That would be the second, now known as Chronicles of Darkness since Paradox has reanimated the original. The originals were Vampire: The Masquerade, Werewolf: The Apocalypse, Mage: The Awakening, Wraith: The Oblivion, and Changeling: The Dreaming. In the original version, each game was...

I think there were a couple of reasons, which probably overlap a fair bit. The biggest was that they nuked their main product lines. Their Big Three (Vampire, Werewolf, and Mage) always had a vibe going of imminent ending, and they eventually published a set of three books (plus IIRC one for...

I see your point about excessive metagaming and judging a fight ahead of time, and counter with the first scene in this clip:

In the Actual Plays I've seen, hero tokens seem mostly used as backup Recoveries. It seems fairly common that someone (often a Fury) wades into combat and takes a lot of damage in order to also deal a lot of damage – partially because of reckless behavior in getting into good positions, and...

I wouldn't go that far, but I think we differ in degree mostly. Theorycrafting is analysis, but it's the beginning of it and not the whole of it. For many cases, you don't need to go into much depth, e.g. when determining how much to power attack in 3e or 3.5e.

When learning physics, it is common to have problems where you make various simplifying assumptions about the thing you're trying to calculate, such as approximating whatever you're trying to calculate as a point rather than whatever its actual shape and volume is, or ignoring air...

Right now, primarily Draw Steel, which it looks like I'll be running either toward the end of January or early February. I'm also liking the Savage Worlds/East Texas University campaign I already have going but Draw Steel has the new game shine on it.

That's a nice round number.

(Weirdly enough, the version of this gif that's available within the board itself seems to be censored and stops before the blood.)