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Many, many, RPGs do this. Arguably only D&D and its close relatives use the ‘roll versus AC’ model. GURPS has this as mentioned. Savage...

Harnmaster has to be the king of simulation systems, is there another game where PCs have sense of smell as an attribute? Such a great...

Traveller's inability to distinguish routine (which teaches only slowly) from high stress/high activity environments is one of the many...

I feel like it's a sensible rate for academic skills being studied in a calm situation with a lot of time doing other things, but a...

It does model practice. There are rules in BRP and RuneQuest for training and research, they just didn't get into every variant of the...

I have always said that BRP/CoC's core advancement mechanic is the most elegant mechanic in all of table top RPGs. You advance for...

Let me get on my soapbox. D&D owes a huge debt to westerns. Real medieval villages didn't have a general store and a tavern. Everyone...

Usually a revisionist western is one that subverts the traditional conventions found in westerns such as the inclusion of morally...

While I don't really view D&D as a western, mainly because it shares so few of the tropes, I do agree it shares a debt. As the Old West...

Well, that's certainly one reasonable example of revisionism. However, you can also question the history with more accurate history, or...

Paint Your Wagon is one of my all time favourite movies - good call The PCs come across a wild and ramshackle boomtown where ale is...

It's never happened to me, but I've lost two former players to tragedy after moves had separated us. They still hurt.

I really mean Player, not their character. One of my Tuesday Night Group lost a quick, but valiant battle with aggressive stomach...

It's my opinion that no one can truly imagine anything from before about 150 years before they were born without devoting a lifetime of...

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