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Robin Laws gives good advice on this in one of the original HeroWars rulebooks (it might be in the Narrator Book, but maybe it's in the...

As I posted: In my experience, players use the numerical/mathematical information that their PCs' remaining hp give them all the time...

Yeah, honestly, I tend to think that if you want a measured damage model (i.e. one that buffers a sudden death/takeout result)...

Sure. Doesn't answer the question, though. The question is whether requests to narrate and describe will skew to those things which are...

(NOTE: the following little rant is not really focused at Micah; Im just using the quote as a jumping off point) The funny thing about...

I do agree with @Crimson Longinus (!) that it’s difficult to reconcile “this trauma will cause you to bleed out and die in the next...

It appears you think that authorship is a zero-sum game; if the players get to do more, it means the GM gets less. That really, really...

Also, to add... you don't have to see how. You get that, right? That you don't have to understand what works for others? You have to...

The PC can't experience their luck being ablated. I mean, ablation of luck doesn't even make sense in the fiction (unless it's a very...

I am not sure what "hard lines" means to you. But, not everyone is at their best with absolute freedom to do whatever they want. Some...

I don't think I've ever seen someone Gadsden Flag an rpg mechanic before...

I cast 'Restore Je Ne Sais Quoi' on Conan. That stab to the face really bummed him out.

It’s not about “doing their job”. It’s about enjoying doing it that way. Enjoying how that makes the game work. I changed the Cure...

It's just meat points, all the way down. Once you get through a PC's meat, it's just more meat.

This is actually one of the reasons I sigh heavily whenever metacurrency comes up. I completely agree that "I know it when i see it" is...