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Both xan very true. Big initial spike followed by rapid collapse.

Suppose that I liked this line of reasoning and applied it to Apocalypse World. So long as I ignore how the rules are supposed to be...

That is an impressive list of strawmen and complete mis statements of the problems. No wonder you feel attacked if you actually believe...

It is kind of the low-hanging-fruit of mechanics-for-game-convenience. Even AC looks better if you know the original designers came...

That depends - armour is heaviest in the most vital larts And rapiers had edges as well as points. Even if you stab through a breast...

I can see this working for something like the WFRP career system, but not for the relatively intransigent D&D class system. The core...

Like I s Like I said, Experiences are already essentially Aspects. There's no real change to that part of the game. So what I am...

Which is why most systems use an armour-as-damage-resistance model. One where punching someone on the breast plate does adjusted no...

Wearing heavy armour helps you dodge! Being super-buff like a dragon or T-Rex helps you dodge! it's dodging all the way down.

That sort of conflict can be fairly straightforwardly analysed: There's a reason that this is a known thing that happens in D&D play -...

Just focusing on what you say about characters: (1) I do that - and have done that - with Marvel Heroic RP. I have built Marvel heroes...

Anyone living after being struck by a boulder hurled by a giant!

Here’s a classic - a two-foot short sword injuring an 80-foot red dragon.

People unable to wear armor unless trained in it, and such training not being trivially easy to obtain. Minimum strength requirements...

Well, that's the problem of sim in a nutshell. The violations are obvious, the constituents are not, and sharing those violations...