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May be tangential and orthogonal to what you want, but I'm intrigued by the concept of achieving greater realism through greater...

Well, that was my first proposition, so we don't have a lot to disagree on. My point is does "getting into the weeds" actually model...

I don't feel that I agree with your assessment. I won't say that I "disagree" because your experience is what it is, and we all have our...

It honestly doesn't help that in some cases what "realistic" would look like is either unclear, or people have some ideas about it that...

As someone that used to run GURPS I entirely disagree. I mean, in say 1999 I would have agreed with you. Although, I was at that time...

Sigh. It's clear you don't understand what fiction-first means and aren't interested in discussing it but do like swinging jargon...

The best lesson in this that I ever had, back in the late eighties, 2 friends were playing some flavour of modern micros, (1/300, if I...

I've looked at it and pursued the ideas you are thinking of here and the problem is that game balance is so negatively impacted that any...

Part of it is, of course, that when Trav was created, the mechanics were such that there was a very strong incentive not to let players...

The usual problem with that is whether the declared action is just autoresolved; otherwise all you do is move the problem back a bit...

I don't see what problem that solves. It just creates new problems. Never ever approach a question of what should happen here from...

Explicitly, that has been part of D&D's rules since the beginning. 3E attempted to quantify it somewhat with its "coup de grace" rules...

I would say the same in D&D.

There has never been a realistic pen and paper system. What people mistake for realism is process simulation where you go through the...

"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...