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The number of skills does vary, tho' not too much; it's 3 or 4 per attribute, 4 attributes, in most of them. The more important...

Only if they think the game is boring. (Seriously, this is a crap line and I'm sick of seeing/hearing it.) There are real fundamental...

BA was the best addition of 5.0, IMO. And a natural outgrowth of the tags on modifers in 3.0... can't keep two modifiers of the same...

Pretty easy to understand they gave up on you for a legion of new players. While I to prefer the complexity of yesteryear edition, BA is...

That may be true of D&D, and many other traditional RPGs. But, there are RPGs that have an explicit end point. Scum and Villany, for...

RPG's can be like a "guerilla game" and same as to that, the guerillas win by not losing. Which in this case is not dying, basically.

There is a clear loss condition: It wasn't fun. That you don't understand that others see clear loss conditions speaks volumes about...

That's not the normal rule. The normal rule is that it's "a" before consonants, "an" before vowels but that it's pronunciation that...

And your linguistic prescriptivism is... «bleep» It's a linguistic tag hanging on only in some subpopulations. Also, the H is sounded...

Looking at what I've been running the last year or so... I like metacurrencies, unified resolution mechanics, variety of special...

Mod Note: Both of you are being problematic. @Thomas Shey has been here long enough to know we’d prefer that, if you’re going to...

Everyone I game with says "a hit point" not "an HP." A few do say "a haich-pee" from time to time. The use of an before h-nouns is in...

Sun Fallout: Vertibird, Paladin: Went Up In Flames

As usual, this is the opposite of my experience; optimizers are at their best in hard games, and in fact, are often bred by same. The...

Mod Note: Assigning value to people based on their play preferences isn't Deep. It's kinda junior-high-school cliquishness. How about...