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My favorite core dice mechanic, even thought I've tired of almost everything else in the system, is from The One Ring. d12 + Nd6, where...

Which is why I suggested it as a courtesy and facilitator, though I can see it being considered a necessity in certain situations.

Necessity? Depends on your needs. There are very good, even necessary reasons, for some folks within the US to learn a second language...

I have a monthly game that alternates between Shadowdark and DCC, so that checks out.

Echoing above format, non (5th ed) D&D games being played in person, roughly from most popular: Shadowdark Dungeon Crawl Classics AD&D...

Yeah, CoC is cool that way. In L5R you can spend a Void point (of which you generally have 2-4 available/day) to add an additional d10...

I've always been fond of the 1d10 system used in AEG's original version of Legend of the Five Rings and a few other systems. You roll a...

The 3e Forgotten Realms Campaign The Encyclopedia Magica

LOL. OK, look, I'll admit I had not played any of the games when I watched the first season of the show, but I enjoyed it enough that I...

I think immersion is desired for any fiction. A lot of effort went into making the world of Fallout, just like a lot of other fictional...

I'd call it more a courtesy and a facilitator than a necessity.

But is it a necessity? It's certainly a good thing, but in a large number of non-English speaking countries, knowing a language other...

Not to mention that their tech is more advanced than ours in important respects, with only the aesthetic being retro-futurist/mid-20th...

Of course it's not required, but narrative convenience, if overused, harms immersion IMO.

They do, at least to some degree, if they want folks to believe in the imaginary world they're creating, and they ideally IMO call out...