Also Shopping Reminder Day.
I slept in some, because I’m on vacation and also there was a cat on me, but eventually I had to get up and let the cleaners in. Hopefully Marith will not die of the danders when she comes to feed the cats.
There is finally a comment on this blog! Also I think I managed to get the link for comments to appear on each post in the list, so you don’t have to click through on each one to read or post them.
Actually watched a YouTube video today, which I hardly ever do (although I let music videos play in background now that I’ve canceled my Spotify account). Sleeping Beauty Deserves a Better Ending.
Read (manga): I Wanna Be Your Girl vol 2 (Umi Takase): Trans girl is not getting accepted, even by her family, boo. Ally girl is meeting more people who turn out to be queer, but is still figuring herself out.
Written (game design): 175:
If we accept that price breaks for limitations are only roughly
correlated with reduced utility (consider putting the -1/4 limitation
“limited range” on an attack when you have 50″ move vs when you
have 5″ move), and are to a large extent bribes to make more
interesting powers, then a “limitation” doesn’t even have to be
associated with a specific power. Limitations could be their own
section on the character sheet, and each one gives 1/2/3/4x the
base points if it applies to one/some/most/all of your powers.
Or, since advantages aren’t a problem, rather than powers starting with
no limitations, maybe every power starts with four limitation slots, and
if you don’t want to fill them all, you can buy them off with
advantages. This removes the possibility of powers with a zillion
limitations, but is that really a loss? The base cost for powers has to
be pretty small, though, since it’s the heavily limited cost, so this
might not work with chonky points.