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It is cool that you have a playstyle you prefer and have found games that match that playstyle. Denigrating other playstyles is not as cool. Most of them, I think. I play D&D, Daggerheart, Shadowdark and Savage Worlds a lot, and those use points or other limited resources to power abilties.

Alright. Fine. I'll listen to it before I complain any more. Jeez.

It may be that attitude that convinced her to let you die?

Worse than "I died with 2 healing potions in my pocket"?

We are nearing the end now. The party is returning from the faewild with boons and new levels, and they STILL won't tell me what they plan next so I can prep.

Sure. The robots will take the jobs of highly trained and educated people, and humans will do the dumbest, most menial labor since humans will be cheaper than the robots.

Interesting. I own the Monster Vault but don't recall reading that section (i mostly just use the monsters in place of whatever boring versions are in the MM).

Yeah, in the past I have been kind of down on SKT based on the sort of crappy experience I described in this OP. But when I was going through the early parts of modules I happened to own on FG, SKT seemed to have a better start.

I have the opportunity to teach a bunch of young uns (okay, millenials) D&D (using fantasy grounds). We had session 0 last night, creating characters and getting familiar with the basics of FG. Next week we are going to start the game proper. My intent is to start Storm king's Thunder with them...

Cards in Daggerheart just hold information that is just as easily placed on the character sheet. And there are plenty of character aspects on the sheet that aren't on cards.

This is The Voice for me. It is vapid and probably rigged, but nothing brings me joy on a rough night like a 4 chair turn.

I enjoyed what I played of Starfield but ultimately it did not have that "must see what is over the next hill" quality I associate with Bethesda RPGs. Skyrim and Fallout 4 are compelling to me because the map is open and littered with tiny quests and environmtal stories. Starfield just did not...

I wish it was just the third season of the show. I think long form is much better for this sort of thing.

The fact that Dungeon Crawler Carl has taken the world by storm is mind boggling to me. But I guess lots and lots of people liked Twilight and 50 Shades, too.

We aren't talking about D&D, or at least not specifically.

I have not played it yet, but I am pretty sure Draw Steel! went for a solution to this problem as well.

Sure. I did not mean that flashbacks are bad. They solve a perennial problem. It is juts that they aren't nearly as much fun as a plan that goes right... for once.

Flashbacks aren't really a replacement for that feeling of a plan coming together just right.

That is super interesting. How common is it for the characters and the scenes to be aligned?

Despite having run many different games for many, many players over the years (due to running at cons) I think the "I roll perception!" player is pretty rare overall. Same for the "I run my hands over the rim of the chest looking for irregularities" player. Most players engage with the fiction...