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The generic name is Heroic Resource. Not very inventive, but it's descriptive. Each class has their own name for flavor. Colville are...

I voted a reluctant no. The idea is sound, but the execution is lacking. Combat in D&D takes too long as it is and adding yet another...

I treat stories and games as different animals. For stories, the point is that in context the events could happen, not that they're...

I’ve got a love hate relationship with them. Tactically they are fun, but I dislike them being tied to a particular weapon type.

You avoid abstractions when it can be practically done. My goodness, this is just the 100% realism straw man all over again. No...

(Emphasis mine.) Do you mean that the game system must not only produce results consistent with the imagined world, but must do so in a...

I would cut the quote here, as this is the argument I think is strong in the post (the rest seem to be rehashing things already picked...

Do you think that situation is likely to occur in an actual game run by a GM?

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.