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Personally, I find character death is usually as much a failure of the GM as the players. Character death is generally not a failure. One of storytelling's main features is that it can bring meaning to death. I disagree. To keep dramatic tension, the threat of failure needs to be very real. This is...

Talent Options gave a degree of versatility to everybody but Magicians. Spellcasters all still look the same. Spellcasters only look the same if you look at this very narrow subset of talents. But if you look at any two spellcasters as a whole, their abilities at any given moment can be drastically...

Is it acceptable for GMs to have players die in combat? I don't know about players , but player characters, sure. lol. Personally, I find character death is usually as much a failure of the GM as the players. I acknowledge that players can do stupid and/or very heroic things and get themselves kill...

I really don't understand the complaint of 'it's so important I MUST buy it,' in regards to durability, matrices, or karma ritual. Each of which I have seen numerous players raise at various speeds. Similarly, I have never heard a warrior or swordmaster complain that they felt they MUST raise melee ...

Or, more likely, they ignore the talents that they can only use situationally and only focus on or purchase the ones they can use every time, in every fight. I've never found that to be the case, but maybe my players are different than yours, or maybe I just make sure that I vary up the opposition ...

Completely disagree. Anything that allows talents to be used more often is an improvement, not a weakness. Is there a reason that certain talents should sit on the shelf to gather dust? Also, allowing for talents to be used more often increases tactical options, rather than limiting them. You aren'...

Not a fan of the changes to maneuver, mystic aim, and flame arrow. Talents don't need to be used every round in order to be worthwhile. Maneuver was one of the talents that mechanically expressed the thematic difference between the swordmaster and the warrior. No, it didn't get used every round, or ...

lol nice convo. My masters tend to go all Socratic on my players as well. ;) I like the idea their advancement to journeyman involving finding or teaching candidates, I'll probably do some of that. I also like the idea of having the wizard solve some sort of RL brain twister, I'll have to think on t...

IMB I don't require training every circle, only at the 'milestone' circles- initiate, journeyman, etc. (mostly for campaign pacing reasons-- I don't want the players to get stuck in the lower circles for a long time because there's not enough downtime. But also because I also like to keep adept's nu...

I think it's kind of weird that a GM is that much involved in a campaign, where he's playing mulitple and quite important NPCs Every time we try to have a players only discussion, he's jumping in, as if he was also a player in the campaign. This confuses me. This is the GM's job. He plays ALL the N...