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For me, "Modern" game design means "streamlined" and not having different fiddly subsystems for everything. Do I have to look something...

I heard about it from a friend, he said the show took a dive, but the bad faux-german names kept him laughing all the way through.

The TV show “Grimm” called its boar/pig-Wesen “Bauerschwein.” Do with that what you will.

I love what I've seen of Savage Worlds Adventure Edition, but can't seem to get my gaming group to bite, so I'm working on some...

That it does. And armor as DR. It all feels unnecessarily complicated, but I’d already written Daggerheart off as not my jam...

On a d4, you hit on anything but a 1 - that’s a 75% success rate. Every other die has more sides. If they also only miss on a “1,” they...

I get it. People like hitting. But to me, the hit is only satisfying because it doesn't happen all the damn time. In standard D&D, it's...

DC20 does that too. So does, Daggerheart, I think. And a few others. A lot of them still use damage rolls because...I guess people like...

So, because I'm a completist, I actually read through (okay, skimmed) the entire thread before typing this. I don't know what kind of...

Honestly, I am intrigued by the concept of Nimble and other similar games, but my personal taste would be to eliminate the damage roll...

Cool concept for a thread, and while I'm going to try to obey the rules of "One innovation per edition," I'm going to try to sketch out...

I absolutely despise Darkvision and think the game would be better off without it, except as a short-duration spell that a character can...

I've frequently counted it thusly, which makes "3rd Edition" an interesting label...bear with me: 0e: OD&D | Holmes 1e: 1e AD&D...

I actually like Mighty Deeds of Arms so much that I'm considering a house rule to use a similar concept with proficiency dice on ALL...