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I'm kind of fond of the social hit points models of BW/BE/MG, 2d20 STA/Dune, and TOR. Three different approaches to it, all of which...

Guess what - I don't care! You holding forth as an arbiter of success or failure is more about your discussion style than about the...

I prefer PG13 and Boyscouts with flaws. By heroes, I mean both better than normal folk, and the white hats. I prefer the kind of "we're...

In my personal experience (and observation as of late watching Actual Play videos) I 100% think it can go either way. Your universal...

I follow the rules of the game I'm playing. For instance, 4e D&D connects treasure parcels to levels. So when I was GMing 4e D&D, as...

My tastes run to shorter campaigns, 8 to 12 weeks, not multi-year epics. I like PCs to be heroes from the start. I like steady small...

This is a whole pile of feelings and preferences being paraded as correct. This is exactly what I was talking about folks. There is...

They released a few 3rd party written ones during lockdown. A buddy of mine wrote for them. Plus, one of them was adapted to a Switch...

I'm part of a group of guys who get together for about two months out of the year for a short campaign (work schedules make meeting more...

That’s a rather crappy interpretation. I didn’t really describe the mechanics at all…just pointed out that they exist and therefore...

That shift predates 2E by YEARS... just look at the Palladium XP gains tables from 1981's The Mechanoids. Note that, while I own a...

I don't mind firm transitions, such as in Alien or other YZE games, nor more flexible, such as in Sentinel Comics or Daggerheart.

My biggest problem is a group that all members can put up with each the other long term. Every time a group has imploded, it's been over...

Many times, a new edition is an upgrade from where a previous edition ended even if it wasnt an upgrade from where it began. For...

Just ordered more glass stones for on-table tracking.