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Given the tables, and looking at the progression through tiers in RightKnightToFight's release of those underlying numbers, one can reasonably extrapolate a tier 0. a Tier 0 standard would likely be Diff 8-10 Maj 2-3 Sev 5-7 HP 1-3 Stress 1-2 Atk -1 to +1 Avg Dmg 3-5 But instead, we get...

It does, however, also strongly reward ganing up, since those reactions burn an attack each. A 2:1 very quickly runs the 1 out of attacks... and further that round just have to make 5+...

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A new edition of Star Frontiers is NOT a stupid idea. It could very well benefit from a revised edition with a few more skills, not gating ship skills to high-experience characters, and all the races from SFAD and ZG in the core... Which is not anything like what LaNassa and Gygax seem to have...

For what it's worth, @Some Dude, Corgi also felt the humor was too thick in the rules... I wish I still had my Corgi ed (it was stolen, sort of), as it's removed the silly spell names. Otherwise, it's just a slightly better laid out T&T 5.0. And the cynical humor? Not much in the 5e rules, a...

There are only 8 in most, and they don't map well to the AD&D ones all that well. Most GMs ignore them, anyway, but they are much clearer about what's normal than any D&D edition.

5 kinds of character damage track: Hit Points: usually, GM option to do lasting injuries when any marked, dead when all gone. Personal SDC (pSDC): a second kind of damage track, no effects until depleted, then all further damage is to HP. Not present in some early versions Armor SDC: Damage...

They haven't ditched the silly tone. At least not in beta.

It doesn't seem to have stopped a number of various companies over the years. Rolemaster reinventing itself, then going back to closer to RM 1e rules... Similar for Spacemaster the licensee for Twilight 2013... but it was not edition compatibility; it was that T2K 2e was compatible with Dark...

Under BX/BECMI, it's not a d20+ mod, it's 1d20≤ Att for many checks. It's only attacks and saves that are 1d20+mod. AD&D, NWPs are rolled 1d20 ≤ attribute+extra-slots; same for BECMI/Cyclo General skills. Because the Rules strongly imply I can. In BX, it's in the example of play that actions...

Because Charisma is so often abused by players dumpstatting (given the various methods other than "in order" rolling) that it's the most common case across game systems. I've also had players who dumpstatted Int... and then try to use player knowledge to solve traps and such. I cut them off...

No, the earliest edition was a max +1/-1 from atts... until expansions. Holmes kept that. BX has a +3/-3 range AD&D1 ranged from -3 to +4 or more, by attribute. AD&D2 had a similar range. both had extensive secondary abilities off the attribute, too. 3E on has a -5 to +5 range for starting PC...

If it's not clearly in the character's abilities, it needs a roll. Player skill in narration can get moderate bonuses to the roll. If it's not totally absurd or a clear miscommunication, I generally will set a reachable goal and send to a roll. I absolutely do NOT let player skill trump...

the key to Interlock as a system is that each Interlock game is an adapted core, much like how 2d20 and YZE games are... the procedures are similar within the system, with the attributes and skills scaling the same, the attributes are mostly the same, but everything else is subject to change...

IM limited E & IMO, SavW is less complex than D&D 5E by late Tier II... they both tack on rules-by-exception; SavW does so more concisely, and with fewer exceptions to the exceptions. SavW has the advantage of a LOT of sourcebooks, including a fantasy companion and a sci-fi companion, which...