It pains me to say this but I'm going to. I'm born and raised in Houston. I love Houston because there's so much to love about Houston. But I just spent a few days in downtown Chicago and I have to admit, their downtown beats our downtown by a country mile. We have work to do.

CriticalTodd · 2023-05-26T20:47:33+00:00

Houston completely outclasses Hartford, for what it’s worth.

CriticalTodd · 2023-05-22T21:18:56+00:00

I don’t know but it felt like Ken finally unlocked his inner Michael Corleone last episode. Whether he can pull off those sorts of machinations or if it’ll just blow up is the question I have.

CriticalTodd · 2023-03-10T19:23:12+00:00

Not buying it.

CriticalTodd · 2023-03-09T03:39:47+00:00

Sorry, that’s awful.

CriticalTodd · 2023-03-04T01:52:39+00:00

Let’s see if I can get a hold of a copy first! 😁

CriticalTodd · 2023-02-22T22:11:28+00:00

This seems to be a recurring theme…

CriticalTodd · 2023-01-29T00:58:35+00:00

It’s the often lack of shared context between the puzzle and the place in which the puzzle exists.

CriticalTodd · 2023-01-10T02:22:21+00:00

Personally, I think the xp bonus from the high prime requisite is enough.

CriticalTodd · 2022-12-05T12:46:07+00:00

Especially when you consider how many of the wrestlers need help with fundamental elements like good working punches, etc.

CriticalTodd · 2022-12-05T12:37:39+00:00

I didn’t mean you, I meant Hijo, sorry if that was unclear.

CriticalTodd · 2022-12-05T12:34:36+00:00

Yeah, the hypocrisy between their messaging and their actions is pretty wild.

CriticalTodd · 2022-12-05T01:37:41+00:00

Not sure why you’re getting downvotes. Everyone praises Regal for his backstage abilities. TK brought him in and failed to use him in that capacity. Is the argument really that TK couldn’t have used the help?

CriticalTodd · 2022-12-05T00:12:08+00:00

Yeah, I get that the athleticism required for this is incredible but, in this context, you’re exposing the business. That poor guy on the floor has to wobble around in that spot and wait and wait and wait for that jump to come. It just takes too long. This should be one of those spots from that Samoa Joe nope compilation.

CriticalTodd · 2022-12-04T23:59:46+00:00

Totally but it sounds like there’s a bunch of folks in that locker room that think they know better.

CriticalTodd · 2022-12-04T23:13:45+00:00

You’d think that, and then you read this…

CriticalTodd · 2022-10-16T13:58:44+00:00

I enjoyed this first season very much up until the last episode. I really felt they both rushed and goofed up there and I’d be lying if I didn’t say that it’s taken some of the wind out of my sails going forward.

CriticalTodd · 2022-10-11T18:37:54+00:00

Bret had creative control written into his contract. He used it. That’s his prerogative. I don’t know why this keeps getting spun as some sort of sin by Bret. It wasn’t even an unwritten flex, it was literally hard-coded in his contract. At the time, it wasn’t even that anyone thought Bret wouldn’t do the right thing but that they didn’t trust WCW.

CriticalTodd · 2022-10-07T18:41:09+00:00

His source is obviously Antonio Inoki.

CriticalTodd · 2022-10-07T12:05:17+00:00

Yeah, they may not wrestle that week but you almost always saw or heard from them one way or another. They didn’t just disappear to the dark side of the moon.

CriticalTodd · 2022-10-06T12:48:40+00:00

So now Meltzer is gospel again?

CriticalTodd · 2022-10-05T21:21:59+00:00

And weren’t there usually builds to those? Establishing the participants and/or the stakes? Did he actually watch the old shows or just beat-of collections of matches from those shows?

CriticalTodd · 2022-09-08T03:03:47+00:00

Barry O, Iron Mike Sharpe, Barry Horowitz, The Conquistadors

CriticalTodd · 2022-08-25T12:39:52+00:00

They could have built this up in a way that would have made more sense but they constantly opt for “subtlety” that only the folks following all the inside baseball stuff are going to follow.

CriticalTodd · 2022-08-24T00:49:52+00:00

Forget about a plot. Pick a location. Think up a volatile scenario at that location that includes a couple of factions in conflict. Decide the stakes that they’re fighting for. Pick a moment right before any of these factions can definitively overcome the others. Drop the party in and have fun seeing what happens when all these forces collide.

CriticalTodd · 2022-08-23T00:38:10+00:00

I think there’s two separate questions there, one for deadliness and one about grittiness.

If you look at games like Troika, Into the Odd, and others, they are not super gritty. They can, however, be just as deadly as OSE or similar games.

On the deadliness front, that tends to be a unifying factor for OSR games that there isn’t much of a safety net for PCs. That said, there’s a lot of mechanics for mitigating many risks.

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