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Because no one ever argues that bonuses and penalties should be limited to physical traits, and when you bring in mental traits, it...

To overgeeked's point, it's all just innocent fiction until it's also supposed to be simulation of the "real world" which leads a game...

I was really thinking of Bilbo. If he hadn't gone on his adventure then Frodo's role would be irrelevant. But the point also holds for...

One of the problems with bioessentialism in the game is that it draws attention to how poorly defined the attributes are. Your species...

The goal I was describing wasn't to get people to try something different from their own, but simply to feel like they can try...

Basically, yes. There’s a difference between having four legs and being good at math. Or having dark vision and knowing how to use a...

I'll add that in a hobby that prides itself on modifying rules to suit particular tables, complaints about things like orcs not being...

Pulling out one specific line to call out what I see as a core difficulty here: But they cannot have that feeling regardless. You have...

In my game the response would have been "You critted AGAIN???" ;) Ya take the risk ya suffer the consequences, ya gain the glory.

The GM cannot--at least, not without pretty thoroughly ruining the experience for most players--make every single decision they ever...

Either at ENworlds, or at all other RPG forums, I have never seen anyone defending a player fudging die rolls as something positive...

If a character puts themselves between a charging boss and another character even if there is a chance that the boss’ attack will kill...

To me the testimony in comments is stronger evidence than the numbers themselves (a public forum with no validation that voters are...

To be clear, I honour the roll. What is the point of being a gamist when you do not honour the game. The game + our homebrew rules have...

For what its worth, I saw a lot of GMs talking about doing it back in the OD&D days though. Most of them at least claimed they were...