Recent content by Thomas Shey

The only one I sometimes wish I'd dump is FB, but there are functional reasons to keep it. I personally find YT a useful and entertaining element of my day (I understand some people fight like hell to avoid getting recommendations they don't want, but for whatever reason that's never been an...

Sometimes a story simply needs a longer space to run. Sometimes it doesn't, but suggests successor stories. The biggest risk is when someone assumes they'll get something like four or five seasons to unpack everything, since a lot of streamers consider two seasons all they want to bother with...

"Stone and Sky" the latest Rivers of London book (though ironically, this one takes place in Scotland). As usual, the author manages to take you on an entertaining trip.

Used to be the common case, at least with books and movies. Always gone up against some economies of scale when it comes to comics and TV shows though.

It didn't have to be an entirely separate entity though. In a more expansive system, it'd have been something that could be attached to a FM or a MU. And it wasn't the only character type the system didn't handle at that point. I can't tell you how many homebrew beast masters I saw.

I don't know about bands (that is to say groups), but I get the feeling a fair number of individual musicians make their money fron Patreon and its kin.

He used D&D, I suspect, because its the first game to consider "thief" a class unto itself (and honestly, once you get out of the D&D sphere, one of the few, even in classed games) and as such has set some expectations. (If you want to argue your last part, that's at least an argument since...

It could be fun for a while, but after a bit it didn't feel good to know if you were taking some of the races as you main race it was masochistic (warlocks and halfing slingers could be pretty OP, but in the late game paladins were just OP as could be because so much started turning on magical...

Maybe not the entire hobby, but it certainly doesn't need to be a defined character structure in a lot of games. Even some classed games (in True20 it was a particular construct of the Expert class, but wasn't a complete standalone thing). In a lot of games its just on archetype build among...

Again, what about either the first post in this thread or where the thread is located makes you think this is about D&D specifically, let alone 5e? Its about whether a dedicated thief role serves a purpose in general.

Got delivery yesterday on the Curseborne PDF from Onyx Path.

i've got to say, @Staffan, that by the time you've gotten down to that much wiggle in classes I don't really see the point in them (since the character end-result is going to be so widely varied anyway) but I'm not going to tell someone what works for them. I just have trouble picturing that...

That seems more like wanting a system with professions than classes. I'm not actually sure I understand the point with still having classes once you get down to that sort of sprawl.

It was probably an extrapolation from the various suprise and secret door checks that were applied in various situation. I would not be at all surprised if that sort of approach was used for some of the less expected things people would have probably tried to have characters do prior to the...

Just as a side note, the first version of the ranger I saw (admittedly in the SR rather than an actual book, but the TSR people seemed to treat those as at least semi-official classes at the time) had Tracking done as a thief style percentage skill too. (I also seriously, seriously doubt most...