As I said above, “no matter the level of snark”.

I came here to express these same sentiments. 

Something I’ve noticed is that a lot of D&D-only-players assume any other game will be even more complicated to learn, and it’s joyous when they realise they’ve already conquered one of the most complicated TTRPGs in existence and almost everything else they’ll play will be more straightforward in comparison.

It’s why I think Deadlands - “it’s a Western but with magic and steampunk!” - and Star Wars - “you’ve seen the films, right?” - are both enduring TTRPGs across huge spans of time as well as D&D, because you know the archetypes well enough to jump right in. Modiphius’s Star Trek game as well, and I have high hopes for…

I think you bring up valid points, but agree with someone elses point about partial success not inherently being better than pass/fail. My main nitpick is that you said you would offer an alternative to D&D which is a fantasy ttrpg, and was hoping i’d find one, but haven’t listed single fantasy ttrpg only sci fi?

wow makes me want to play the game.... I mean if you don’t like crunch why you playing a pathfinder game? but also... why refuse the tools they give you to simplify it? I really hate this approach whereby people who don’t want any control over their character want to take the fun away from people who enjoy making cool…

I loved Kingmaker, and I would’ve loved it even more if every single element of it had been reduced by about 30%.

I was at the end of the game in the House at the Edge of Time, level 18, having played it on on Difficult or Core the entire way, and was just so tired of the pattern of: wall of enemies you need to apply 15 buffs to each one of your party members before the fight to successfully resist, apply your typical…

The fact that you just put everything your DM to figure out and not do the homework yourself really speaks to the kind of player you are. That wouldn’t fly in my group. The rule of cool only works occasionally. The rules are there to keep the game fair and balanced and shouldn’t just be thrown out on a whim. If you…

Also didn’t the original trilogy do the same thing? GoW1 ends with Kratos as the new GoW and GoW 2 starts with him being the GoW before his powers are stripped. GoW 2 ends with Kratos and the Titan’s raging war against olympus and GoW 3 starts with the raging war against olympus.

That’s because it’s literally a direct sequel that picks up right where the previous game left off.  

If you didn’t play the original Oxenfree, then first of all, play one of the best video games ever made! 

Probably. But Kate is also the wrong movie to take that to task. Kate is a film that, while having a global release, is very much directed at a western audience. It is absolutely marketing itself towards the kind of people in a world in which Japanese culture pretty much infects everything. And I don’t think that’s…

I find the hand-wringing around this one so weird. I get the exhaustion over these “Lady John Wick” films that have been pumping out already, but I found Kate to be a fun genre exercise: it is what it is, and while its doing nothing particularly new, it’s anchored by some stunning set pieces and an actress who handles…

And again I think people way overthink a movie. Its an action flick. And it wants to be just an action flick with some stylish cinematography.

That’s fascinating. I’m under the impression that the wide majority high school students in Japan speak English in the same way that high school students in America speak French, which is to say absolutely terribly.

‘The flashy neon image of Japan hasn’t changed since Blade Runner, I guess...’ 4/5

These sound more like problems with you more than they do problems with the game.

Earlier this year I played Control, which I loved, which made me go back and play Quantum Break, which I also think was pretty great.

Alan Wake was great, and it had some really cool songs in it. This song is amazing.