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Others are likely to disagree, but I don't think emulation of reality is a worthy design goal at all. I think the primary, maybe only...

I prefer to think of it as genre-based reality rather than REALITY. And genre faithful rules deform REALITY quite a bit - but ideally...

Yup, we all have different tolerances for this sort of thing. I mostly play and design for fantasy games, but I get the piloting thing...

I find myself disinclined to run systems with chunky skill lists. At this point I really don't care about 6 different firearms skills...

The problem with narrow skills even from a realism POV (and admittedly GURPS tries to address this with defaulting) is many skills are...

Sure, you could make a game where the skill values overpower the RNG in most cases. Just taking some numbers off the top of my head, you...

I concur here... I got my start on d% and it was my go to for years for linear resolution until I started to get that same feel, where...

First, let me put my cards on the table as a person who really like triangle and bell-curve distributions. In my opinion, it’s not...

Sure. "Storytelling" doesn't have to be premeditated. The story can be "told" emergently.

I like opposed rolls, and use/design with them often, especially when the PCs are facing off against equal/higher tier opponents. Adds...

Agreed. But...my tolerance for replacing numbers with unique symbols is limited. I'm ok with TOR dice (replacing the 11 and 12 on a...

-nods- I'm with you on that as well! I'm not a fan of "unique dice" at all, if for no other reason than it forces buying those dice...

If one prefers no metacurrency, PbtA games, FitD (which as been a large part of the discussion in this thread) games, and Legend in the...

There's also Tales of Xadia, which is the only published "full" Cortex Prime RPG. Fortunately and nicely they put out a free rules...