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Rolemaster is the system you are looking for. That is literally how their three* types of magic are defined: channelling, essence, and...

How about a Lens, or a starstone, or a golden torc...

Generally speaking my answer is static, but I think that the locks and thieves example has some additional nuance. A high level party...

Personally, I prefer static DCs as framed by the original post, as it seems like everyone else does. I do think though that scaling DCs...

In your terms, always static. Otherwise, you're looking at a skill/DC increase treadmill. What's the point of increasing your skill if...

I think this is the important part. People who’re very much online and pay a lot of attention to the hobby were involved and worried...

The Steampunk era was still about the Great Empires. Mercantilism was a thing hence Robber Barons but the East India Company was still...

The most perfect use of it is on cheese-on-toast.

I think it is a fair comment. I had to read DS cover-to-cover twice before I really understood what it was offering me that was...

If you found a nice patisserie that would be the closest thing. There are some in the UK.

Yup, been there. It was quite stodgy but worth it to try the Queen of Puddings made professionally.

If colonial-types (;)) want to understand the true British pudding and have the chance to visit Blighty then this is an essential...

I’m in the North West - Preston to be specific. Amongst other things it had the very first KFC in the UK, though no idea why.

There's always mods!

This feels a bit like the half-cut plot about the droid planet in KOTOR2, but at least with a TTRPG we can choose to run the original...