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A lot of systems that have a broad set of skills could do this. It'd mostly be weird in something like D&D or Pathfinder where all...

They certainly look cool. I find that I need the large print cards nowadays. Not this large though.

At a baseline, they're equivalent; but of course, there are systems (e.g. Eclipse Phase, at least in 2E; Mythras Imperative as well)...

No thanks. As the GM, I am still playing -- especially when the minis come out.

shrug GM rolls for NPC offense, players roll for PC defense where applicable. GM rolling introduces a fair bit of variability and...

I think "reality" is a fools errand, but I think that whatever degree of verisimilitude that the players want in their thematic play is...

Sometimes, the math is trickier -- for dice pools with exploding dice, say. If you're playing original Shadowrun and looking at...

Skill thresholds for ordinary (sometimes for unusual) tasks aren't that uncommon in BRP-based systems. In Call of Cthulhu, for...

Opposed rolls are probably more common than direct subtraction -- whether in terms of comparing degree of success such as how BRP-family...

The Deer has 4hps and a 13 AC. So one attack in a fight is usually going to end these shennanigans and it will cause a save for the...

BRP-style percentiles are very straightforward and allows degrees of success (e.g. CoC 7E having critical, extreme, hard and regular...

If this is something the Shade would do, then it's warranted. You flagged it to them ahead of time. What opportunities come out of this...

I’d assume an assassin has a pretty good idea when someone is dead vs when a heal wounds is going to get them right back up. As to your...

A binary choice is nothing like enough. As mentioned, game books and early computer games generally present more. The most obvious lack...

Strong disagree if anything isn't data. They are literally rebuilding it from the ground up for a reason. I've run projects trying to...