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I see those items as, ideally, to a greater or lesser extent taking you beyond what you can otherwise normally achieve. Otherwise...

Even as GM I don't change the fiction on the fly to help the characters. Once the session starts the fiction is fixed. I don't care if...

This obviously is not true. Causality is completely different in these cases. If the character attacks an orc and the orc dies from it...

Sounds good. You know drama and narrative appropriateness are not what I consider a priority for GMs. Let the players generate drama I say.

Throughout most of my life, I've always been able to find the time for social activities. But bear in mind I never had kids, which...

I think it was a mistake to allow finesse to fully substitute strength with dex. It should have been so that it only does so for to hit...

The real question is, who controls the bugs? Ah, who am I kidding, it's pixies. It's always pixies.

Rolemaster is for cowards and communists. Real simulationists play HârnMaster. (Full disclosure: I love HârnMaster on paper. I still...

And noone told me! Are you saying that all those wonderfully moments I had, witnessing the cool ideas my players came up with unfold in...

But is that a diegetic sound? I don't think it is practical, possible or even desirable to have a RPG where the GM doesn't to some...

In other news, it's Tuesday... :)

This is how you get Rolemaster. You don't want that. You need the Misstepmaster supplement, then you can roll on the Manoeuvre on...

What we call luck are generally those things that happen that are outside of our control. If youe PC falls because he failed to notice...

I'd say the answer to "What does a simulation do?" is more like "It models, as best as it can, how something would happen were it...

I think that the runes meaning what they hope for is not affected one way or another by their knowledge of runes.