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but looking at it from the perspective of any other launch is misleading, no other TTRPG had anywhere near 5e numbers. That is like...

For any edition or sub-edition, good sales for the core three books are essential. If they don't sell, nothing else in that edition is...

There’d more conflict and the 2015-2024 generation would experience the pain of all their stuff being made obsolete or having to switch...

I actually see there being clear silos in both video and board game segment. Go and chess have a strong following with people I have...

It seems apparent to me this is just reframing the whole, ‘if it’s simulation it must be perfect argument’ into different words.

In games that I care more about the simulation aspect of things (it varies a bit by group) there will be months if not years between...

Yeah, you never want to make a ruling like that in the moment. Just take the hit as the GM and move on.

Well yes clearly. See again Earthdawn. I've been in this situation though (a long time ago) with D&D The NPC had a crossbow pointed...

To be fair, if there's a diagetic reason the character doesn't fear crossbows then it absolutely is a sim agenda. For other uses, I...

Or you could address me about my post. And not hold people who like an overarching point as responsible for explaining my lack of...

How is that not about hit points? Your examples are predicated on how hit points work.

That’s fair. Then I think we agree.

And yet no one suggests the simulations are perfect. I can see how that would be a ‘problem’ if they did. But they don’t, so?

I have to think about this a bit more, but it strikes me that play focused on elevating one aspect of these five over the others (while...

Point. I prefer damage reduction personally. But to be fair most of my sim work for RPGs is for outside combat anyway, because my...