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You took the words out of my mouth. And the analogy is exact. Vincent and Meguey Baker can do whatever they want with their game, just...

I did not like Burned Over, it made changes that took away from the game. Kinda how Deep Cuts was really not fun for us for Blades in...

I'm not sure why we would judge a golden age of RPGs by reference to the commercial success of a few RPG companies. Nor by, say, the...

As someone who came in through BECMI (which didn't have VSM components), I don't feel that they are terribly important to the game.

Its not intended to be charitable.

If you're going to talk about them as systems, yes. Far as that goes, if you're going to talk about how they were generally played...

In the same way that overland travel, time spend socialising and so on do not happen in initiative order, we just recognise that the...

Right, the alternative way to look at this is that most things should be minions and that having hit points is the unusual factor. Take...

I'm not sure what is still being argued over here. The "minion" rules clearly harken to media tropes of protagonists defeating faceless...

Given I'm specifically talking about hit points here, that's kind of a nonsensical ask. The whole point with talking mooks is mostly...

Just to clarify - @clearstream is stating that it is impossible to incapacitate minions since any damage "destroys" them. Therefore...

Some novels are well written. Some novels are poorly written. All novels, though, are written; and all (or near enough to all) aspire to...

Anything can be "an event that happens in the game". That doesn't tell us whether or not it is railroading.

I guess ones who vociferously play by RAW would. I assume they would also say librarians and scribes can save their books and papers...

Not just the mechanics but the entire 4e ethos was ignored because.......stormtroopers or something.