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There's a difference between "could survive" and "no chance of dying" at least if some attempt at modeling reality is the goal. There...

Savage Worlds is a hodgepodge of influences, to be sure. I don’t think being genre flexible is a barrier to being strongly...

Verisimilitude is very important to me, however I don’t see that as intrinsically simulationist. A good set of narrative mechanics would...

I wrote about immersion at some length in issue 5 of The Path of Cunning, the GURPS fanzine I co-edit. It's a bit long to repeat all of...

That’s cool, and thanks for replying @TreChriron. I have many fond memories of RM, it was the system we used for one of the best and...

I played a little MERP when I was a young lad. Don't remember much. Read some books before, but never played. I don't really have...

Still going through the data but some first really interesting findings have emerged. So, there were a total of 319 people who...

We (as in Jessica and I from EN Publishing) were exhibiting at London's Dragonmeet TTRPG convention this weekend. It has long been my...

I'm very excited for The Broken Empires.

The Broken Empires (kickstarter link) is due for general release mid-2026 and non-backers can pre-order for that time

Yes and no. It depends what you’re using them for. But the essence is that a trap is meant to be interacted with. That’s the key thing...

I think they’re more fun if they can be spotted, figured out, and circumvented by clever thinking rather than ability checks. The...

Small digression - did you play the earlier additions? If so, how do you feel RMU improves them?

How to make combat fun is an interesting topic, might be worth a thread of it’s own.

‘Convert the fluff, not the crunch’ - it’s the maxim I operate by.