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True. I think cetaceans have near human level intelligence, the poor sods just don't have hands and live in water so they couldn't...

i mean, humans are pretty good tool users with our opposable thumbs and all, our intelligence took us pretty far taking advantage of...

Unless....to bring up the Tolkien point again...you have a "race" with a detailed and compelling backstory, maybe as a function of their...

as well as taking advantage of your biological strengths, no?

It says there are no TPKs and monsters always die?

If you keep saying ferocious, people are going to think you mean ferocious.

If I want to simulate movie logic for a heist like Oceans 11, I think BitD likely works better. That game is not trying to be a sim in...

It's probably more of a gamist construct, in that the stats are designed to maintain pacing in the challenge portion of the game. It...

It's worked well enough for tens of millions of people over the past half century. There are plenty of options for people that want...

Sure, but the relative popularity of different approaches isn't a better argument.

If I'm playing, say Horizon Forbidden West, when you start you're fighting monsters like burrowers. As you level up, for a while the...

Sometimes it has to be, because part of the genre is not acknowledging within the world some genre conventions. One can, of course...

Changing rule paradigm, I can sort of get abord with. Changing stat block for the same creature however should be completely...

Right, because it's a narrative device. This is what some folks have a problem with.

Mostly by splitting species up into heritage and culture, and then letting you mix and match the two to get what you want for your...