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Water Breathing lasts 24 hours and is a ritual. It should be cast daily on the whole party. Doesn't even need to be prepared, just in...

I certainly regret making the terrible attempt at humor that started this lol

@mamba, I've quoted a series of your posts. And am trying to work out what your position is. At some points, you seemed to be talking...

An addendum to the above post: upthread someone talked about sim vs "gamism" in the context of classic Gygaxian D&D. For the game to...

One of the things people miss about Apocalypse World is just how good the pacing is. Vincent Baker's background is as a tabletop...

Right. If I read someone's account of how they use exhaustion/stamina-type conditions for walking long distances, and implement twisted...

I don't understand why. AW has a rule for resolving any declared action. It actually is broader, in that respect, than any version of...

You seem to think that resolving a player's move, in AW, is profoundly different from resolving a player's declared action, in D&D. I...

Yeah, Hero had 3 expendables in 1981... Body, Stun, End. What it lacked by default was penalties for less than all of any one of them...

The question is, by the time you've done all that, given it was about half the mechanics or more of OD&D, why even bother? Again...

Then compare that with Harnmaster ( at least the 1986 edition ) which had locations and degrees of severity that had their own saves and...

That's often been my feeling about it, but I can understand someone who's tired of having to go back to that argument Yet Again. And I...

For me, "play to find out what happens" - if it is to be meaningful - has to include the GM. So I see any notion of the GM having a...

The thing about hit points is that getting hit by something sharp or heavy moving fast is, in most ttrpg settings, the single most...

I'm not sure what you mean by this. RPGs are games. They are played by participants, who - as in any game - make "moves" that cause the...