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Define "should"? Also, your claim isn't my experience with the real world. That is to say, the difference between 8 and 10 and 10 and...

the 1E surprise rules always annoyed me, particularly when it involved "so, this guy can sneak up on a wild panther and has a better...

Ken Hite has argued that Call of Cthulhu is a Western genre, if you agree that: • Barbarism can only be defeated with the gun. • All...

No. Or, any system can, depending on how you look at it. To emulate those old movies and TV shows you'd have to have a table of...

Brindelwood Bay. We are slowly uncovering the dark secrets that underly the sleepy town of Brindlewood Bay. That, or we're just having...

After all these years I'm only this now? Quelle Horreur! Toon: for the Earth shattering KA-BOOMS.

I don't know that I can answer what the campaign is about yet. Right now it's mostly trying to give the players a sense of what it...

Okay, if I’m tracking, I think there’s lots of stuff in SD you’d bounce off before the task resolution rules have a chance to annoy you...

At a guess, a sense of humor. But it's OK, I don't have one either.

In the context of an RPG, I consider "the game" to be the shared imaginary world. I consider "the meta" to be the real world where the...

I'm getting old I guess, but that to me doesn't even sound like engaging with the game. That sounds like engaging with the meta, in as...

Here is a short reference document on AD&D initiative I found in a good thread about it on EnWorld...

Untrue. As Bill pointed out, the vast majority of the rules cited in ADDICT are straight out of the DMG. I think your characterization...

Sure. For some reason I've become a bit obsessed with analyzing a game that I gave up on like 30 years ago, and which after trying to...