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aramis erak replied to the thread Which RPGs best model real-world skill development?.No edition has no advancement... CT's is just insanely slow - 8 years to perma-lock a skill in play, vs 4 or fewer in CGen (it's 1 year... -
aramis erak replied to the thread Which RPGs best model real-world skill development?.Since so much of experience and development is subjective, I consider them only in relation between in Char Gen and In Play. GURPS 1e⋯3e...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Realistic Combat that's Simple(ish).Yes, there are. There are systems where the probabilities are close replicas of the observed odds of outcomes from real life. They tend...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Realistic Combat that's Simple(ish).One roll resolution? that's a hard barrier. more than 95% of the games I've read use damage rolls. Two come immediately to mind...
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Did one myself onto concrete. Walked away from it very slowly. If I had landed on anything besides my feet (did a PLF without...
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aramis erak reacted to Heilemann's post in the thread Realistic Combat that's Simple(ish) with
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"It's not complex but..." is the tagline for Rolemaster 😄 I love Rolemaster—in fact I had everything ICE ever made until selling it in... -
aramis erak reacted to Doctor Futurity's post in the thread Describe your last rpg session in 5 words with Like.
This "thing" ignored our armor.
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aramis erak replied to the thread RPG Archive: Boot Hill Wild West RPG.It's worth saying: Westerns as a genre almost always have an audience; it's seldom a big one. Also worth noting: a lot of classroom...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Advancement, A Weird Idea?.I found that tracking success/fail for advancement in Mouse Guard often was a mild interruption for new-to-it players, but became...
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aramis erak replied to the thread Describe your last rpg session in 5 words.Sun (one shot T&T:ANA Alpha PT) Recruit NPC; kill rats well.
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aramis erak replied to the thread What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart?.which doesn't jive with the examples a few pages later.
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aramis erak replied to the thread How many "steps" is too many?.in my two sessions, the most common was actually 2 hp... between the two thresholds. Armor reduced that to one frequently enough, but at...
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aramis erak replied to the thread What RPGs genres are lacking?.Axiomatically, that takes them out of actual western and into weird west.
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aramis erak replied to the thread What do YOU plan on doing with Daggerheart?.Page ref? (No offense, but I want proof. And I don't trust your understandings of terms based upon prior history.)
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aramis erak replied to the thread How many "steps" is too many?.Thresholds set by armor and level. Some special abilities also adjust it. If unarmored, it's (level)/(2×Level), no reduction uses...