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    dbm replied to the thread Why I Hate Skills.
    Maybe check out some of the Gumshoe games? In that system skills are split into ‘investigative skills’ and ‘general skills’...
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    dbm reacted to Morrus's post in the thread Brits United with Like Like.
    Nah, my goldie and my collie are more than enough work! I shall have to make do with a mere 75% Yorkshire disguise. I did have a roast...
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    dbm replied to the thread Brits United.
    Did you bring a whippet?
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    dbm replied to the thread Brits United.
    Last year we visited the Cornish Seal Sanctuary in Gweek. In addition to the seals they had a puffin enclosure where rescued puffins...
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    dbm reacted to GuyBoy's post in the thread Brits United with Like Like.
    I do love badgers: Since retiring from professional life, I’ve worked p/t on a vineyard and country estate. The wildlife is awesome, but...
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    dbm replied to the thread Brits United.
    Hedgehogs and robins are probably universally loved (or at least, not disliked) so a shoe-in. Badgers and foxes have more mixed press...
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    dbm replied to the thread Brits United.
    Here’s something to warm the cockles of your heart… hedgehogs! We get lots of them in our garden and have some feeding stations for...
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    dbm reacted to CF07's post in the thread Wolfenstein TTRPG Coming From Modiphius with Like Like.
    I wasn't actually trying to do that. I was just agreeing that many players have an "with my shield or on it" mentality. Stories that...
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    Specifically, concessions are the player agreeing to their character being ‘taken out’ of a scene and in return they get some agency on...
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    A fair number of RPGs these days have "chase rules" that put some mechanics on pursuit and evasion. That's probably a good place to...
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    dbm reacted to Thomas Shey's post in the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency with Like Like.
    Yeah, honestly, I tend to think that if you want a measured damage model (i.e. one that buffers a sudden death/takeout result)...
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    dbm replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.
    Draw Steel addresses the ‘what are HP’ question head-on by having Stamina as the thing which gets whittled away. It is explicitly...
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    dbm replied to the thread Let's Talk About Metacurrency.
    I like a well implemented meta currency system. They are all over the place these days so that’s fortunate for me, I guess. The...
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