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It's true that the Incapacitate tag is on all the good Save-Or-Suck spells. There are plenty of weaker ones that don't, though. For example, Slow does not have that tag. Slow takes away 1/3 of their actions for 1 round if they make their save or 1 minute (aka the whole fight) if they don't. Seems li...

Shadowrun 6e is out and it's a shitshow.

Paradox continues its purging as Head LARPer Martin 'Dracula' Ericsson steps down.

He'd already been essentially relieved like 6 months ago, but now he's fully gone.

I also hear that Modiphius has been equally as shit with delivering paper copies of v5 as whoever was in charge before.

I have to look into monks more. I think they can only have 1 active power on (which can be super charged if they get a 'critical success' or whatever). Tho the based damage of unarmed is initially low ( punch/kick/bite = range 0/1/0, dmg 1/2/0, deadliness 2/1/3 respectively) So the question I will a...

Aye, although most schools have the same 3 techniques (spell lists) available: Kata (fight), Shuji (social), and Rituals (extremely minor prayers to kami/fortunes, tea ceremony, etc.) Courtier and bushi are mostly just differentiated by their school technique. School techniques scale with rank. Ther...

We don't have a courtier in our 5e game but I've looked into it some since I was considering trying to spend some exp Personally I think skills past 2 are hard to justify except maybe primary skills.. Bushi have only 1 primary skill which does a lot of heavy lifting: Martial Arts (Melee). This one s...

I play both the 5e RPG and LCG, AMA I enjoy the LCG but it's very long and has many action/pause windows. IMO its biggest mistake was not having a "fast-play mode" be launched a few months after release in order to cut demo game length in half... Since regular games can go to ~60 min in to...

v5 is now basically dead

It's an ongoing story but it's a damn hot mess

When I heard about new L5R, I was like yeah! I hope they drop roll and keep. Because even though roll and keep feels 'neat' , 95% of players I meet will never understand the probabilities behind it unless I print some charts out. It looks like they went the complete opposite direction of my hopes an...