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I shrug, and roll the other 2d6.

Are we going down the line? Then it depends. If we are placing them where we want: CHA time!

What I'm seeing is Hardcore Henry. In. 3. D. Holy . . . pop a couple diazepam and go for a ride!

Considering I said happen more and not more often then I think this entire defense by distinction falls on its face.

Not to speak for anybody else, and I don't know the particulars of this one since I've not really been following that thread, but there...

Ah. The argument I was referencing suggested that TPKs happen more often. Which was incorrect. Happening more or more often are two...

The more often you roll, the closer your average roll result is to the expected average. But it also makes it more likely that in some...

There are so many... It does help to step away from D&D, OSR, or adjacent, as all of those are not really tryin to solve the no-fun...

But that's not how statistics work. The more you roll the dice is the more they average out. If the DM just gets more and more killer...

So, I'm probably going to look at this through the lens of the OP, in which . . . . . . der_kluge suggests that making fun and engaging...

I don't know of any system that does wargame-esque set-piece encounters really well (in the sense that they are tactically complex, fun...

I don't think that TPK/TEC (too easy combat) can both "happen so much" and do so in "low rounds of combat." Dice can look less than...

Huh. I may have missed that while learning to walk 🤓 It's all about tradeoffs. Full backpacks mean lots of clanking and an...

I love equipment, not the weight management or the Tetris game you play to make everything fit, but what you can do with it in a given...

Dangerous spells are fair game at high level. I don't have any expectation that mid level or even high level combats should be between...