Recent content by Retros_x

Half the fun of rolling is rolling at the table with everyone involved! At least thats why I do in games where we roll. This sounds intriguing, do you have a system that fullfills this vision of complex creation and simple/roguelike feature based progression? Absolutely agree. Tropes and...

Acting might be some of the most misunderstood professions. I read so often so many bonkers takes on acting, it doesn't surprise me that someone gets aggressive towards those ICE actors.

Thats a great point. When I started DMing D&D I saw dungeons more as a neccesity from time to time and it was mainly OSR design that made me excited about dungeons.

At the costs of the artists losing money. If you can't pay artists and you dont want to use free-art - you don't have the resources to be a publisher. Your business plan failed. If your business plan only succeeds when using AIs that are trained on copyright protected art, you don't deserve to...

I also stumbled upon this. Every serious talk should be taken in person, or at least with a (video) call. We are genetically programmed to communicate in person, not via an abstract medium. I would also argue, if the problem player blows up in person and is not able to hold that conversation -...

I would argue that feeling competent and results less swingy has nothing to do with the extreme results on the outside of the curve, but with the average results (or more precise the results within one standard deviation of the mean) coming in more reliable.

good point. Swingy is for me that you are less certain on a certain outcome. I think thats why people say 3d6 are less swingy because you have a higher chance of the result being in the middle of the bellcurve. For a linear distribution everything is possible every outcome has the same chance...

I believe that, but I did not read that in his prose. Contrary to what I just finished reading: Slow Horses. Similar to Le Carree (although in a very different style) one of the big main topics in Mick Herron is institutional failure and corruption. I think one of the main reason it works, is...

Its like one of the main reasons advocates of dice pools claim. You really never saw that claim? Its almost ever one of the first ones that comes up in the 3d6 vs d20 discussion. I also assumed it. But me being a 3d6 hater, I love this post for giving me one more point against it for the next...

What are arguing right now? Just being a contrarian at all cost? I never claimed that none of Del Toro's movies won any awards, I claim this to be a new development of horror being widespread in the academy award winners and even in the major categories. This was the topic I proposed to talk...

The right also throws out the artistic intent and design. For pure realistic games this might be cool, but I would be pissed if I would be an art designer or character designer for a video game company.

I would agree with you, I think it is the "dramatization" of horror with A24 at the forefront.

How could I forget! 3 horror movies in the major categories of the academy awards, it feels new to me. Especially because Shape of Water was not a horror movie IMO. Inspired by old creature flicks definitely, but not horror in the sense of Weapons or Sinners (being actually scared and gorey...

No surprises here. A lot of big tech CEOs talked about their kids having strictly restricted access to technology and social media. Many private boarding schools for the elite have strict no cellphone/no social media policy. They know what they are doing and they pull their own kind out of it...

Speaking about Sinners - we had two horror movies not just being nominated but actually winning academy awards (Sinners and Weapons) and not just in special effects or something like that, but in the "high tier" categories. Did we ever had something like this? Is horror as a genre finally...