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I submit that a "mythic rpg" is any rpg that closely resembles Pathfinder's Mythic rules.

Momo, you must remember the GM cant bring pain on you from nothing. Before he makes a "hard move" on you (hurting you, ambushing you, endangering you, taking something from you, etc) he must make a "soft move" (like "announcing future badness"). So, its impossible for ...

This sentence words order missing elephant. If you read "sensible" as "sensitive", it works in order and in context. Technically that would still be wrong, because the issues with shadowrun are many, and not holistic. The fact that the Matrix Rules are ass is in zero ways at all...

Kaelik wrote:

silva wrote:Im more sensible to holistic system issues like the one seen in Shadowrun).

This sentence words order missing elephant.

If you read "sensible" as "sensitive", it works in order and in context.

Momo, I think its like that because otherwise the player with the highest Sharp (intelligence) would be Reading the Sitch every 2 steps. I know this hapenned to me: one player from my group Readed the Sitch even when takin a crap, and stopped to Read the Sitch every couple steps in the wilderness -...

I'm rapidly starting to think the only time you're allowed to roll to notice something is if you've already noticed there's something to notice. A perception check on a traditional game (say, Shadowrun) would allow you to detect incoming foes while distracted, right ? AW Read a Sitch down work for ...

I dont think this is correct. The biker PC taking a crap while reading a porn magazine in the cab is not elligible for Reading the Sitch, because there is no charged sitch happening at all. “ I read the situation ,” her player says. “You do? It’s charged?” I say. “It is now.” “Ahh,” I say. I unders...

]Wait, am I reading this right, in that the damage you take and the effectiveness of your scare is unrelated to how many opponents you're fighting? Nope. The damage effects in Seize by Force is on a one-to-one basis, except if you have an SMG (or other gun with the autofire tag) then you can spray ...

Bran needs 10 minutes alone with Jeanette’s body, so he opens fire on H and Marser. He hits the roll with an 11. “Take definite hold, suffer little harm, impress dismay or frighten,” he says. “Fantastic,” I say. “You hit H for 2-harm and he goes down, Marser drags him away. Marser heaved his crowba...

schpeelah wrote:

Cyberzombie wrote:How do you even know if you kill an enemy or it kills you if there's no statblocks?

Obviously, either happens if the DM decides that's what the result of the latest roll is.

7-9: You successfully killed him. Also, he killed you. gg re?

Maybe I'm just overthinking this. Yeah, I think you are. The reason "to get a charge" is not a valid one, since its a player reason. The character reason for getting a charge is due to his obsession. So this... The example is that if you play a game of Russian Roulette, you only get the c...

Unless you just paraphrased it poorly and it's better worded, doesn't this literally say that Entropomancers can't get charges by endangering themselves in pursuit of the goal of getting charges to use to accomplish a goal? Limiting it to 'needlessly' makes it impossible to get charges on purpose, ...

I do vaguely recall the battle against internet piracy going something like that. </sarcasm> Yeah, I may have exaggerated. But it's not like they never make any advances at all. Basically I'm expecting And I guess it is is always possible the entertainment industry will succeed in killing the inter...

Because of how charging works for Entropomancers: they can't charge up without endangering themselves needlessly so taking risks while pursuing goals with other player characters doesn't count. Unless you just paraphrased it poorly and it's better worded, doesn't this literally say that Entropomanc...

You are still infinitely far away from nanobots that grey goo the world. You say this like it's a bad thing. :tongue: I think the intended result of a printer that can print itself as well as other things is a decentralization of manufacturing, which supposedly is supposed to launch us into a star-...

I don't get this line of thought at all. How do you get no personal experience out of the claim "I recognize these rules and they were shit the first time"? Do you mean that UA isn't based on/related to CoC? It's closer related to Over The Edge for many parts and it's kind of the prototyp...

Oh sure Momo, I got your point on horseshit. Im not even discussing it, really. D&D 3E is pure horseshit for me so I wouldnt eat it no matter the other ingredients in a recipe. So I see where youre coming from. ;) Have you ever explained your reasons for disliking D&D 3e (and, I presume, D&...

Good point. If a pineapple pizza recipe had only one ingredient and that ingredient was horseshit, it's easy to see how the experience as projected by someone who read the recipe wouldn't match up with the experience of someone who actually ate it, since even a mediocre chef would just make a pizza...

If one take Frank impressions on Apocalypse World (again, projecting "problems" that never hapenned at anyone tables), its easy to see how a reviewer can fail in projecting the intended taste/experience, specially without any actual-play experience. Good point. If a pineapple pizza recipe...

So your argument is that recipes/rules are irrelevant because a good chef/MC can make something palatable out of a shit recipe/system and an awful chef/MC can make a disaster out of even a good recipe/system? The recipes matter, but the skill of the chef is always the central issue. I'd see it more...

Please explain because - and maybe this is because I haven't ordered a tuna steak at a restaurant - I have no clue what you're trying to say there. Well, how the tuna turns out is most of all reliant of the skill of the chef. A chef could follow a recipe and still the tuna would turn out tasting li...

I dunno. I think if you have both the recipes and the menu it ends up approaching a reasonable simile. I mean, you have to assume the chef follows the recipe, and you'll have defenders going "No! This restaurant isn't shit! Yeah, I know the recipe for the pineapple pizza has only one ingredien...

reviewing a game without actually playing it is on the same level as reviewing a restaurant by reading the menu. Amusing, perhaps, but lacks a fundamental element of substance. This isn't nearly as valid a simile as you think it is. Reviewing an RPG you haven't played is more like debugging a progr...

Also, he apparently enjoys the idea of playing PedoWorld. Seriously - WTF?! I mean, I think I see what they were going for with that playbook; but it's so wrong and deeply disturbing, I don't even know how to begin. I've spent way too much time now thinking about that and I'm in some combination of...

Well given how stealth checks work, it's kind of hard to come up with many good complications for a partial success. I figure the "you're spotted but you get a chance to silence the spotter before he sounds an alarm" or "guard thinks he sees something but isn't quite sure" is ab...