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Yeah it's interesting how the American "standard" and British "standard" (Received Pronunciation) diverge strongly here. In Received...

By "needs roleplay" do you mean "needs a backstory justification"?

And on that note... my copy arrived today! :D I'll be reading it over the weekend.

For what it's worth, this was the issue in the playtest that caused one of the players to ragequit. Back then, you'd subtract your armor...

100% this. I recently wrapped a year long Genesys urban fantasy campaign and the amount of cognitive overload I was dealing was...

Apparently. Seems like with the latest advice it should be a different thread on a different subforum.

Check threshold/use armour are two steps. Of course subtracting is normally slower than checking so it comes out in the wash unless...

Lots of people talk about the speed or otherwise of combat versus 5e. For me personally I don’t care whether combat takes the same time...

I believe the idea of the armour is the thresholds are soaking some damage, but when hp gets through, you can damage your armour a bit...

Daggerheart goes with a slightly complex armour system because it's trying to solve two complex problems at once: If you use a soak/DR...

I kept hearing about the game but didn't know the details. Now I do. It's not my type of game but I'm sure it will make some here...

It also has zero sense of gravitas, which is something GW had been needing for a very long time. There's no way to explain the gonzo...

Gamma World 7e is probably the OG 4e inspired game - taking it's mechanics and simplifying them.

Yeah, there's some real utility to delineating between "feeling fine" and "this is getting dire" no matter what you call it, since you...

Tiers of play as well as some of the paths and ancestries are pretty rooted in 4e (e.g., Commander/Warlord, Warden, etc.). Schwlab did...