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It's true, that game would not work for me. What I'd say is that trad gaming can work for me, under the condition that the GM is...

I want to pull out this example, because I think it is even more clear than the cook one and comes from actual play. I get what you are...

One problem with our examples is they tend to stop time, and here one needs to extend the example in time to see that "nothing happens"...

I think the idea here is that in some implementations of this (I want to say some early CoC, but that might not be right, or possibly...

Uncaged: Faces of Sigil Just a great example of how to provide an entire campaign worth of material using nothing more than NPCs. This...

I think this is pretty common - Save for Half is, essentially, identical to Damage on a Miss - the only difference is who rolls the dice

I assumed by roll under you meant roll under your stat or similar. I wouldn’t like that. If it’s just roll under vs roll over and all...

I realize I wasn't who it was directed at, but I can't say I'd feel any difference when the probabilities and approach were otherwise...

I did.

Right, but would you actually run a game that you had no interest in yourself, in a style you don't care for? Not that that never...

Firstly, I'd not seen that until now, so thank you for bringing it to my attention. I also had my own misgivings about the Six Cultures...

That blog post was quite empathicaly argued against in this though: Broken RPG Theory: The "Six Cultures...

Right, but it's not about the maths, it's the perception. On an intellectual level, I know it's illogical, but roll under feels...

I'd say that is an equally valid way of looking at it, but it comes down to whether one is viewing it from the character, or the task...