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I love Burning Wheel and Burning Empires. My player base doesn't... Duel of Wits is brilliant. the battles in BE are wonderful... but...

No. I meant "who will this mechanic serve the needs of?" Some mechanics really work for some people with some aims and some really...

The premise in that particular sci-fi/space opera setting is that operating most vehicles is explicitly similar. That being said, we...

I didn’tread the Forge personally. The best explanation I have is that procedures and mechanics are both examples of rules but mechanics...

Roll under is still, by definition, "big number good" -- especially if Price Is Right rules apply.

One of the reasons Savage Worlds is my favourite RPG is that it has some great procedures which cover scenarios that come up often in...

I would say that is a very common rule in general, now. Even GURPS says not to roll Driving skill for a trip to the shops, and with the...

Sure, you could make a game where the skill values overpower the RNG in most cases. Just taking some numbers off the top of my head, you...

Speaking of mechanics, a long time ago we greatly enjoyed the MERP systems style of combat. It was D100, but you could take your skill...

We've been using Daggerheart for our latest campaign. The 2d12, aside from increasing critical successes (as opposed to a d20), does...

I concur here... I got my start on d% and it was my go to for years for linear resolution until I started to get that same feel, where...

I find the asymmetry of Daggerheart attack rolls quite interesting. Players use 2d12 (triangle distribution) while NPCs use d20 (linear...

I can totally understand that. One of the tools in GURPS is a set of general difficulty modifiers, so you can just think about how...

First, let me put my cards on the table as a person who really like triangle and bell-curve distributions. In my opinion, it’s not...

I have run up to three groups in my Liminal RPG game set in the Lake District in the 2010s. Two of them are now inactive, but the third...