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Sorry. Your post talked in generalities. "The reason we play games", not the reason we play GURPS.

When I run Shadowdark, I do not allow this sort of thing. The spell does what it does and if your friends are in the way, well, make a...

Not always. Plenty of games are sufficiently detailed to cover a variety of non-adventuring situations, often for reasons of simulation...

Another thing to consider is a failure on a skill roll, even driving, isn't necessarily a catastrophic failure. A failure could mean I...

To me, it's a collection. Much like some people collect stamps or rocks or Funko Pops, I collect books and games. So the 'library' is a...

Most games I've seen recently say much the same thing.

I've always loved necromancers and inventors as characters, probably to some degree because undead and constructs are my favorite types...

Spoken as a man pushing 50...yeah.

Look at Jim Murphy's "Enlightened RPG" for a nice combo of "level" and meta currency. It's a pdf on itch. He and his co-author Steve Key...

I hear you. Anecdotally, in my experience, before 3E we never lacked for DM's; everyone wanted to run a game. Running a game was fun...

I may be an outlier, I've had more character deaths by an order of magnitude in the modern era of gaming (3rd edition and onwards) than...

Well, it certainly isn't for everybody. My group is getting the hang of it, but they forget about combat maneuvers too. It's too bad; I...

We've tried two back-to-back campaigns of A5e (and they seem likely to want to start a 3rd this weekend). They can't run their...

I have two players who started (like me) in the TSR AD&D era. I have another (quite vocal player who also happens to be my wife) who is...

I've run into that problem myself more than once. Had a devil of a time teaching A5e to my group at first. And I still can't get them to...