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You hush.

Yeah, but it's not. Not for, say a wizard, or even a thief. Combat is a significant fail state for some classes in many games. We're...

An interesting outlier in this conversation is a game called Vagabonds of Dyfed. It uses a PbtA base, adapted for S&S play (not...

Beyond that there are all kinds of possible combat actions one might attempt, depending on system. Again, it's not trivial.

Dying is never trivial.

Um, the consequence is getting ganked in the liver instead of gloriously killing yet another rabid kobold. Opportunity cost perhaps, I...

An easier way to do that same bit is to use a hard gate. Assuming the party doesn't have passwall or anything, a magically locked door...

With only a 10% chance to fail, thinking in game terms, that means he fails on a 1 or a 2 on a d20, so his bonus is amazing and/or the...

You can't be faulted for not reading the entire thread, so I'll offer a couple of clarifications... There isn't, or shouldn't be. But...

Not really, or at least that's not what I was talking about. There are lots of published adventures that gate all sorts of important...

Locked doors are just a soft gate, and in this example are doing that job. I'd agree that it's not super interesting, but that's true of...

I loathe gotcha traps, so yeah, this. If they radiate powerful magic or some shizz and the players still decides to read them then...

I like a lot of different character advancement schemes. For fantasy and some flavours of Sci-fi the idea of levels and that big...

When running other people's adventures, which I like to do, this results in a lot of the content (except combat) essentially being...

I like Classes Rolling Stats Classes (and Ancestry/Species) give you a framework, while rolling stats works to prevent things from...