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Oh, by the way, this is insulting, and also not generally correct. The issue wasn't just "barrier to entry". It was also (indeed more)...

In other words, you never gave it a shot.

I'll note that I've only had one (of about 20) players have any issues with the action economy in YZE... across T2K4, Alien, Vaesen, and...

Because it's not the wrong tool. It's a tool that can hit the parts of dungeon crawling many of us care about. See, the most important...

Actual Old School, however, is VERY adjacent to DH... just delete the metacurrencies. The OSR isn't actually all that reflective of the...

Ravenloft -- meaning the domains of dread -- are a giant pile of potential frames, given how frames are focused. This brings up an...

It's just a countdown timer.

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...