Mike Myler
@mikemyler.bsky.social
ENnie-winning freelance game designer, editor of EN5ider, design manager of Level Up: Advanced Fifth Edition, author of various campaign settings, Storytelling Collective instructor, designer of other RPG books, yinzer (from Pittsburgh), friend of doggos.
It's pretty good and gets a lot of call outs in the literature. Not your typical film noir but a classic for sure.
November 11, 2025 at 5:18 PM
It's pretty good and gets a lot of call outs in the literature. Not your typical film noir but a classic for sure.
If your target market is younger then definitely, but the (very good) pun might throw old people off. Billy Wilder did a film noir called Ace in the Hole set in the opposite of the Rough Part of Town (isolated nowheresville).
Could still be a solid title but heads up
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_in_...
Could still be a solid title but heads up
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_in_...
Ace in the Hole (1951 film) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM
If your target market is younger then definitely, but the (very good) pun might throw old people off. Billy Wilder did a film noir called Ace in the Hole set in the opposite of the Rough Part of Town (isolated nowheresville).
Could still be a solid title but heads up
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_in_...
Could still be a solid title but heads up
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ace_in_...
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Couldn't for the life of me remember how it used to work so pulled out Ye Olde Tome to check and yeah—there's a little explicit sentence right at the explanation for the first damage condition in the Combat chapter. Probably got dropped in restructuring? But that def helped Teen Mike immensely.
Couldn't for the life of me remember how it used to work so pulled out Ye Olde Tome to check and yeah—there's a little explicit sentence right at the explanation for the first damage condition in the Combat chapter. Probably got dropped in restructuring? But that def helped Teen Mike immensely.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Couldn't for the life of me remember how it used to work so pulled out Ye Olde Tome to check and yeah—there's a little explicit sentence right at the explanation for the first damage condition in the Combat chapter. Probably got dropped in restructuring? But that def helped Teen Mike immensely.
Couldn't for the life of me remember how it used to work so pulled out Ye Olde Tome to check and yeah—there's a little explicit sentence right at the explanation for the first damage condition in the Combat chapter. Probably got dropped in restructuring? But that def helped Teen Mike immensely.
* Please note due to idiocy this sidebar may already exist and I am simply spacing out on it, in which case I offer my stupid apologies.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
* Please note due to idiocy this sidebar may already exist and I am simply spacing out on it, in which case I offer my stupid apologies.
OK I'm an idiot, but only now on page 197 did I understand how health/HP/etc. works in Mutants and Masterminds 4E.
It's elegant and cool—a sidebar much earlier that says "eventually those Hit penalties to Damage resistance checks will result in 3 degrees of failure and KO" would go a long way.
It's elegant and cool—a sidebar much earlier that says "eventually those Hit penalties to Damage resistance checks will result in 3 degrees of failure and KO" would go a long way.
November 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
OK I'm an idiot, but only now on page 197 did I understand how health/HP/etc. works in Mutants and Masterminds 4E.
It's elegant and cool—a sidebar much earlier that says "eventually those Hit penalties to Damage resistance checks will result in 3 degrees of failure and KO" would go a long way.
It's elegant and cool—a sidebar much earlier that says "eventually those Hit penalties to Damage resistance checks will result in 3 degrees of failure and KO" would go a long way.
Have you had a go of it using something simple (like getpaint.net) and stock assets? There's a *lot* of sci-fi packs for those.
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November 11, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Have you had a go of it using something simple (like getpaint.net) and stock assets? There's a *lot* of sci-fi packs for those.
Have you perused all of Poe? Some of his obscure stuff is surprisingly creepy and I recall getting unsettled here and there.
November 11, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Have you perused all of Poe? Some of his obscure stuff is surprisingly creepy and I recall getting unsettled here and there.