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Yes. BR 2E had typical D&D adventuring, but it also had domain management. Reminder me of the SNES game Actraiser. Part action part sim...

I don't agree with your premise. Those are challenges, not anti-PC abilities. At least they are no more anti-PC than a dragon claw or...

"Nothing happens" is always an acceptable (if maybe unwanted) outcome of any attempted action IMO. Skipping your turn means you don't...

In D&D, however, that hidden "sniper" could be dropping a fireball on the targets; and those can hurt. Some of us try to push back...

Typically an ambush is a tactic one uses to get a major advantage over a superior foe you cannot, or would not want to, take on in a...

How do the players feel knowing that they can't actually get an ambush off either?

Is there a way to achieve the same result by bending the rules to suit the fiction rather than bending the fiction (as narrated) to suit...

IME adventures have almost always been about achieving a specific end, even if that end is merely to strip a site of anything worth more...

IMO - if the party is truly surprised, then the party doesn't get an initiative roll. Their first clue there is trouble is when the...

Dont make it a level 1 thing. It comes online at level 5, say, when you are already used to your character. That would also dovetail...

Even if your neck is tingling and your spidey senses are on full alert, how can you effectively dodge something you don't see coming?

Sure, if there's loads of opponents I'll batch them together somewhat, like you say. The batches still re-roll each round, however...

The post I was replying to when I first brought this up had as its main point somethng to the effect that trivialized combats aren't fun...

To me, "cinematic" means what it says: the combat you see in a movie, whether it's Errol Flynn striking dashing poses during swordfights...