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Yes, and aqueducts are a thing, too. Adding to what you just said one really big issue that people are overlooking with the "but it's...

I wouldn't say Legend in the Mist is rules-light, it's rather dense in rules and mechanics, and Daggerheart even more so. What LitM is...

One of the problems I have is this presumption of the pyramid structure of trad RPG's. There's no actual reason for doing it that way...

Often we agree, but on this occasion we don't. On the issue of ranking: there can be a "known best player" without an official...

Another interesting thing about the comparison of Daggerheart (as rules "light") to PF2e (as rules heavy) is that it can help someone...

If you are on one end of the spectrum, every other option looks like the other end of the spectrum.

I don't know FR very well. Is there scope to imagine that, in FR, a deep water port means navigable approaches and docking consistently...

Yet someone coming from PF2e sees it that way! Maybe that tells us something about PF2e?

I think you seriously underestimate what players will put up with if they have limited options when to play. A set of house rules has...

I think that's a big assume. In some cases the person talking about it may not have thought about all the workarounds. When talking...

That's ... very untrue. 4e was extremely friendly to house ruling and kit bashing because it was so transparent. You KNEW what would...

Thank you! The charts are great and Ben did terrific work putting them together, but often they are better understood with more...

Is this in the context of D&D play (or some similar sort of FRPG?) Can you say a bit more about how your system works: who is rolling...

The use of random encounters as a type-of "clock" is one well-known use case. The other, though, is as a type of "world simulation". At...

I see this as a type of gameplay mismatch: * The 3E rules - for better or worse - present themselves as a game for playing...