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I don't think linear systems are any more prone to over-relying on random chance than non-linear ones - if you're using a random...

You're not wrong. To some degree I feel like my role as GM, even with the linear system, is to say "let me worry about that". Not that...

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Incidentally and just my opinion of course, but for me, trying to model the ends of the bell curve as described here, off the cuff, is...

I like a simple universal check like a roll high d20 based on abilities because it's easy to resolve on the player side (unless you have...

Yeah, this is what I'd expect. The trouble is, this isn't the first time we've heard about re-writing Beyond. As far back as 2019, which...

Not yet, no. I am aware that Draw Steel does things fairly differently from 4e, such as dropping binary to-hit rolls in favor of a...

AFAIK I never argued whether or not it was a "new game". It is a revision, which means that which is not the same as the previous thing...

I think you've lost the plot here. They are clearly not the same game or else there would not be a revision to talk about, and you admit...

No, that would be 6.0. A revision, quite simply, is not a full new number, its an incremental change, like a .5.

Heck I'll even call other games "D&D" depending on the audience. My wife doesn't care if I'm playing "D&D" or "13th Age" or "bss's...

Okay, what are we calling older-than-current-5e then? 4.999e?

This is a bewildering reading of the situation. The narrative can provide options or the player can go "well, I didn't like that...

Even in character, it's entirely reasonable the majority of the time that the knowers and not-knowers are talking such that someone is...

Well that obviously sounds like crap, yeah. I think (and I'm sure there will be shouting to the contrary) that a line needs to be drawn...