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I would agree with this. I think adding longer-term consequences to being knocked out of combat has some solidly positive effects on...

It is desirable to me, as GM or Player, because the alternative makes zero sense to me. If you're concerned about getting hurt and...

You've played different games than I, then, particularly around the 'solace in each other's arms' piece. Character romances (and...

Though to be fair, with the current natural healing rates this is absurd too. How can you have suffered real injuries if you're...

but they can feel exhausted and sore, maybe even bruised, and know that drinking that potion helps with that

Right but every time the previous blows landed, there is a very high probability that the fiction was about getting hit: bruises, blood...

I suspect Dragonlance provided a much bigger push in the AP direction than did anything else in the early days.

Echoing comments that not all campaigns have a planned ending to start with. As a matter of fact, campaigns having a planned ending is...

IME, leveling is today's game is much, much faster than it was when we played 1e. I've had PCs reach level 10+ in 5e in under a year...

Long-term stats from our old-school games shows Thief-types and Mage-types have roughly the same overall survival rates as the...

Since your entire point about boring bag of HP is being ignored and dismissed with silly debate over if people dislike the potential...

Not to pick on you here as others upthread have said similar things, but giving only bonuses or improvements without at the same time...

Given that the OP asks us to give our opinions on metacurrency, and that "Ugh, I don't like it" is a valid opinion, I fail to see the...

CWaRLaRDS - Cwarlards - kinda just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it. :) "C. Warlards, Physician and Surgeon, at your service. Please...

As a design change at the real root level, make combat considerably more risky so as to encourage non-combat or very one-sided-combat...