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This is setting fluff, not game rules.

What rules do you think need changing?

There is still atmosphere, known at the exosphere, at ten thousand. And traces as far as the Moon (384,000 km). That’s why satellite...

I don’t think there is any place for the use of the word “lazy” as a critique. The people who create these games, like the rest of us...

Not so much an oversight as a product of Forge of the the Artificer having been written before the Forgotten Realms books but published...

In situations where the wording is unclear - which is always going to occur, because English is an unclear language - then you have to...

So basically, BG3.

This is a Ship of Theseus type thing. Personally, I would use the ruleset to describe the game, qualified by the setting if it's non...

Disagree. I replayed them fairly recently. DA2 stands up fairly well, whereas I didn't complete Inquisition. Too much collect twenty...

Which were quite good, and attempted to actually use the tabletop rules to create a CRPG, rather than something in a different genre.

Star Wars is very unrealistic in terms of the scale of space (and planets). “Thousands of miles” wouldn’t get you out of the atmosphere...

I seem to recall Starfinder has separate ship and non-ship skills so PCs don’t have to choose between them.

FASA Star Trek did the best job (that I am aware of) of dividing ship combat roles between players, but was designed for three or four...

It’s not so much the time requirement - a constant stream of battles quickly gets boring. I’ve found that three per session is about the...