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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.

I think it can be all about the skill and still involve luck, as one might reasonably call the variability of skill you identified as...

Not our fault the designers got it wrong. IMO Luck - as in the Halfling trait - is a hideous mechanic.

When a real-world archaeologist walks into a chamber that has some runes on the wall those runes already say something, and what they...

Oftentimes, this is indeed correct. Starting with 3e the game has taken professions (armourer, baker, etc.), natural abilities...

Given the extreme degree of in-game variability of situation and circumstance where a check might be made, I'd posit the mechanics...