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There's literally no contradiction between those two bolded things. I speak from decades of experience. The contradiction is between...

Designers' goals with the design are the goals I was referring to. In the case of DH, those are pretty well laid out.

Many GMs use the roll not to determine if information is given, but how much information.

Follow up to Morrus' post about this: I reached out to Goodman Games and got an email in response: I imagine there was an anxious...

If the goals are laid out, the assessment of whether the mechanics can achieve them isn't all that subjective. Whether the will is less...

Better is a highly personal &/or situational assessment. The only universal is that good editing and layout improve any ruleset's usability.

Palladium was a constant target of the Anchorage ultra-right for the burnpiles.

One of the problems with traditional structures is that the needed structure in an RPG is always more amorphous than the traditional 1...

Okay, but that's exactly the problem. Instead of you saying "Okay, they can have this one, I'll get them later!", and saving your chit...

There are several "Hmm, that's odd" choices in D&D 5e... That's one. That some classes don't is yet another... one way or the other...

Yeah and I always find it pretty funny that 5E does that given that like, 2nd edition realized that was a problem and so started Dark...

In which case, I've no need of it.

I enjoy it purely as a vehicle to play AD&D games. But I agree, Daggerheart seems like it was designed for my style of play.

In general this game seems to handle disability stuff better than most - in fact most "social justice" issues are handled with what I'd...

Personally, I've no use for OSRIC... I love to read OSR games, but not to run most of them. Daggerheart is hitting that right blend of...