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  • I play it and enjoy it for its departure from standard D&D. It basically just codifies the way I wanted to play anyway, which is to say with a more narrative focus.

    I have also found it to be combat heavy based on how the adventures are written out, and the system is clearly balanced for its board-game style combat rules. It’s not terribly cumbersome to keep track of all of the moving pieces even if it does seem a bit complex at first, and the hero skills can make for some cool heroic moments.

    I think it would be harder to do theater of the mind for combat but not impossible. All of the forced movement abilities might make things difficult to track unless a lot of things are handwaved, but I think they’re all surmountable problems.

    I also like the character creation well enough that even if you don’t use the system you should absolutely steal the character ideas.

    Our online group has been beta testing the Draw Steel official VTT, the Codex, and it’s been a really great way to experience the game thus far. MCDM’s whole operation is far better than D&D for my money, and I haven’t seen any signs of them even slowing down.








  • How many polling stations are there in solidly blue areas?

    If I needed to intimidate people into not voting but I only had 30,000 brownshirts I would just be very selective about where I send them, where they’ll have the most impact. Sending one anywhere isn’t going to do anything, it needs to be a large visible presence in order to more effectively spread that fear.

    I bet 30,000 ICE agents at the “15 or so” places where Trump needs a better handle on the voting would be enough to change people’s minds about being there. Or maybe even stir up the base to have them come out and “help” the ICE army “monitor” the process. It feels like anything is on the table at this point.