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Sounds like fighters are pretty important then. Good thing SD made one.

Well, we all can only speak for ourselves (despite me seeing folks try to strengthen their arguments by claiming a bunch of people agree...

I've seen this complaint about "combat death spirals" for years because they incapacitate a PC leaving the player with nothing to do...

I differ I think from most tables in using absolutely the same rules for PCs and NPCs. So a 7 hp gobin dies in my game at -9hp...

Look, I keep asking questions. Rather than say something like, "this question is wrong and it actually works like XYZ," he only says...

Now this statement I can get behind. If two "similarly skilled" opponents fight, luck and tactics (or pre-fight strategy) will/should...

Not a problem for me if it happens. I have zero problem handling the death of a PC, mine or anyone's.

Played a lot of con games of Nuclear War.

Yep, Rolemaster and MERP were college saturday games for me, 35 years ago. We loved it then (bunch of enginerds), and accepted...

Exactly. “Combat is a fail state” is just a pithy phrase to capture the idea that fights shouldn’t be entered just for the fighting...

But without a fighter, what do you do when you inevitably fail to avoid combat?

Oh, and as for the "reasonable chance of success" at rolls to attempt things....what is "reasonable"? 50%. 75%. 90%? Whatever the...

Of course the rules are 80% about that fail state, because that is when your characters die. You want to have precise rules here. The...

You have that talent, it's just not written on your character sheet: skip your turn in combat and spend the action trying to hide...

Why exactly do you think ways of overcoming obstacles without combat shouldn't be superior to conbat?