Jadasc

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I've been involved in one aspect or another of the adventure games hobby for the past twenty-five years. Started playing in 1987. (First game? Champions, followed by CyberSpace, the Iron Crown cyberpunk game for Space Master, their sci-fi Rolemaster spin-off.) Was hired by InQuest Magazine in 1996, where I started my editorial career. Since then, I've done work for Green Ronin, Malhavoc Press, Dream Pod 9, and White Wolf. I managed two different game stores in the metro Boston area in the 2000s, and am now working primarily freelance. Still gaming after all these years.

I have a weakness for good coffee and bad puns.

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Feb 21	comment	How could I make Bruce Banner/Incredible Hulk as a valid character? @Nigralbus I believe that the question limits the scope to World of Darkness games; Scion, like Exalted and the Aeonverse, are separate games that share similar rules systems.
Feb 11	comment	How does nWoD's Secret History chapter relate to the other core books? @OpaCitiZen I think you've got a point. The GMC (and its counterpart for Requiem, Blood & Smoke: The Strix Chronicles, are going to be an in-all-but-name second edition for the nWoD games. When more information is ready to go, I'll update the answer. (I haven't yet purchased the fiction anthology.)
Feb 10	comment	Gumshoe/Lorefinder - how do you deplete a Boost? It's not in Mutant City Blues, either.
Feb 6	comment	What would be the best system to play a Mission Impossible or James Bond game? Have you considered Leverage? It's a Cortex-Plus game that's geared to capers and action.
Jan 28	comment	How do I explain stress to a d20 crowd? As an aside, one way to convey how the stress track works mathematically is to suggest that the last box is "100% out of the fight," and that each box to the left of it is half the size of the one that follows. (So a three-box track would be 25%, 50%, 100%.) If you try to fill a box that's already full, you move to the next open box on the right.
Jan 13	comment	Effect of modern society's exposure to the improbable on Paradoxes In mage-awakening, Paradox is a result of drawing certain kinds of magic across the Abyss, rather than the result of disbelief -- although witnesses can exacerbate its effects. Maybe this question would be better as an Ascension question?
Jan 12	comment	What major non-hermetic virtue would be appropriate for an ex-Ex Misc who wants to be Flambeau? Is this question still relevant to your group, Brian?
Jan 2	comment	Do specters gain angst using arcanoi? An actual WtO question. Bless you. I've added a tag.
Dec 23	comment	In-game reason for no multiple supernatural templates in nWoD @Mikalichov To some extent, but there was often some kind of horrible punishing "catch" meant to deter you from doing it.
Dec 22	comment	In-game reason for no multiple supernatural templates in nWoD Are you looking for one reason that applies to all the templates at once?
Dec 10	comment	Any GM headaches or canon reasons not to let resurrected PCs fight their reanimated corpses? @okeefe Well, here's how my reasoning goes. These spells (by which I mean `raise dead`, `resurrection`, and `true resurrection`) have as their function the restoration of life and health to a creature. Once that happens, whatever's left is necessarily not that creature anymore. It may be flesh, but it's not subject to animation or conversion to undead status any more than the flesh created by casting 'stone to flesh' on a rock would be. There's no precedent for beings with multiple bodies that are 'theirs,' barring swarms, gestalts and the like.
Dec 10	comment	Any GM headaches or canon reasons not to let resurrected PCs fight their reanimated corpses? @StuperUser I'm saying that once true resurrection happens, there is no more "corpse" -- there's just the character, whole and healthy.
Dec 10	comment	Any GM headaches or canon reasons not to let resurrected PCs fight their reanimated corpses? @Mikalichov The resurrections are in the same chain as raise dead, which means that they fail when trying to be applied to someone that's undead.
Dec 8	comment	Is there a distinction between skill and knowledge checks? Hi, Luke. Page 26 of which book, please?
Dec 8	comment	What should a DM do if a player wants to do something impossible? @Pavel I think the answer contains that: it is good because it establishes that this world runs on a simulationist engine. The rules are basically physics -- anything can be tried, but there's no guarantee the challenge will be within the range of possibility for you. That's something that many players enjoy.
Dec 6	comment	Retrying a failed skill challenge @RenanMalkeStigliani I think I've found the core of it. See if this is clearer.
Dec 5	comment	Faster technomancer play — what dice formulas should I have on hand? Welcome to the site, Eforen. I'm curious: I thought that the technomancer was designed to avoid the decker problem of being a god in the Matrix and useless outside. What makes you feel like you can't do anything in meatspace?
Nov 17	comment	How do I handle a group that does not understand the 'assumption rule'? I... I have been quoted. I had no idea. :)
Nov 13	comment	Can a vampire survive sunlight exposure? Welcome to the site! You've got some good answers here -- although many of them have strong limitations on them that keep them from regular play or use, they do fit the question.
Oct 30	comment	When a villain grandstands, what is he rolling against? @gomad It's possible that even the creator of the game might not have the best answer. :) But it's good to reevaluate now and again.