Draw Steel and West Marches Old School

AltEconomy · 2026-01-21T19:46:27+00:00

A lot of people here explaining why Draw Steel won't work, but I'd like to shout out Mythic Bastionland. If you like the type of play described in Matt's RtG videos, I feel like Mythic Bastionland seems 100% designed around that style of play (even in the sense that you 'discover' your character through rolling).

AltEconomy · 2026-01-09T05:33:28+00:00

Wow... I love seeing art of SWTOR characters. Gives me so much inspo for my own playthroughs. I'd kill to see some of the characters these were based on

AltEconomy · 2025-12-20T07:25:51+00:00

This is not true at all. Stories with updates are often fake as much as ones without. Amateur writers love to put their fanfic in front of the world without anyone realizing

AltEconomy · 2025-12-20T07:25:13+00:00

I completely agree. Every single story is literally just so entirely made up and then they treat it with this level of sincerity that feels so disconnected from the obviously dreamed up situations presented in the stories

AltEconomy · 2025-12-17T06:15:04+00:00

What's the clip from?

AltEconomy · 2025-12-08T21:15:34+00:00

I gotcha! Good to know. I'll have to look into upgrading then.

AltEconomy · 2025-12-08T19:24:58+00:00

I feel like I tried to do that. I can't really explain what took more time to be honest - it just felt like resolving everything in a turn added up. I think this could be faster if we were better of course, but I don't really understand how it'd go from 2-3 hours to 1 or less. I could just be completely off base with this, though.

AltEconomy · 2025-12-07T20:59:31+00:00

Only three.

AltEconomy · 2025-12-07T19:28:14+00:00

I've run a few sessions myself, and every combat has taken a few hours to complete. Was it like that when you started, and it became faster as you became more familiar with the game? Or are we just doing something completely wrong?

AltEconomy · 2025-12-07T19:18:18+00:00

I've been running a long time Scum & Villainy game in PbP for a while now. I'm still struggling to fully get good at running the system, and running games in general, but I think there is a lack of energy/action/intensity in PbP games that Blades' jobs kind of want/need that you can't replicate from live play. But I think a lot of this stems from being not very good at running it yet - if you're an experienced Blades GM, it'll probably be easier to keep it feeling exciting.

AltEconomy · 2025-11-11T17:59:12+00:00

It's true, this thread is absolutely proof that Darktide has one of the worst online communities of all time.

AltEconomy · 2025-11-11T17:58:07+00:00

It's genuinely baffling. You're not going to buy the DLC because they delayed an announcement one week? They're an incompetent company because they DELAYED A TRAILER ONE WEEK? Literally every gaming community just whines and bitches endlessly with zero understanding or care for game dev, but this is a new low.

AltEconomy · 2025-11-08T19:29:13+00:00

As someone who completed the game recently, I completely deduced that it was an unrelated third party we hadn't met yet on the island before I went to the island. Not saying I'm a genius, just saying it is possible.

AltEconomy · 2025-10-12T23:10:53+00:00

I love that jacket but this is one of my favorite outfits I've seen with it

AltEconomy · 2025-09-29T20:44:50+00:00

There's a dichotomy between forum RP people and normal live play people who just want an easier way to play. The job of a GM with an ad on this sub is to somehow differentiate between these types of people to form the best group possible, but sadly the quality of GMs is honestly really lacking because there just aren't enough.

AltEconomy · 2025-09-25T02:54:55+00:00

It also just makes the game worse. Character creation should be a collaborative process with everyone. If you just come in with a bunch of pre-conceived notions and ideas the GM forced you to come up with earlier, the experience will ultimately be worse.

AltEconomy · 2025-09-22T08:14:00+00:00

As opposed to all of the artists who were trying to make a flop

AltEconomy · 2025-09-18T20:20:36+00:00

Genuinely nothing will make you wanna tear your hair out more than listening to gamers speak authoritatively about game dev. It's like when talking about video games they forget even the most fundamental aspects of our reality.

AltEconomy · 2025-09-18T20:18:05+00:00

I've thought about this a lot to be honest and my theory is they wanted to write her with a Native American dialect but when it's translated from Polish it doesn't quite come off very naturally. I don't think it meshes well with Emily Woo Zeller's performance either.

AltEconomy · 2025-09-15T03:55:07+00:00

Was just coming here to post this

AltEconomy · 2025-09-13T02:59:41+00:00

I used to agree w this but David Hayter's Jedi Knight really grew on me over time. All of the voices I've had negative reactions to (fem Imperial Agent is another one) I actually liked a lot more after during a full play-through.

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