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unpacking, analyzing, probing, considering.... EDIT: Or, to paraphrase Billy Collins, tie it to a chair and beat it with a hose.

Not really. Let's say you have a background like 'squire in the Black Guard'. That suggests a whole bunch of possible skill type things...

No one with the same background will ever have identical skills because the player is always interrogating the background based on...

That said, a lot of people have never tried playing with, for example, a background instead of a skill list. They really do the same...

Yeah, I wasn't telling you how to play. (y)

This is all true and I really like the passion in how you describe it. That said, you can get the exact same thing, more or less...

Gahh. I hate knowledge checks. Not I guess in principle, but almost always in execution. I think my plan going forward is to grant...

The best advice I've read for running horror is in Liminal Horror. It's a nice lean OSR-ish system that does a lot of things right.

I don't really like hours as an in-game measurement tool. Once you get to things that take that long you're abstracting an awful lot of...

To be clear, I'm strongly against "checks to see if a character knows something" in general. If a player asks for info, I tell them the...

So it's actually maybe closer to old dual class rules than the recent D&D multiclass where a MC character would usually be one level...

Sure. Absolutely. It matters more if every 10 minutes is a new random encounter check, than in a 3.x /5.x, PF2, GURPS, etc game where a...

I thgink we safely say at this point that video games have a pretty significant effect on how people understand, consume, and enjoy TTRPGs.

I like point buy, classless systems. They let players build the character they want. If a player wants to have a character who can pick...

In terms of old school play time wasted is a valuable and measurable resource. Far less so in newer versions of D&D or Pathfinder.