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I think Robin Hood, Aladdin, Bilbo Baggins, Arsene Lupin, Charles Lytton, and Butch Cassidy may have also contributed just a tiny little...

Because its the fault of fumble rules: They always affect martials more because "roll dice for more attacks" has always been a martial...

I've always seen it less about refereeing than about A) spells doing increasingly world-altering things which open up completely new...

Like many things, it is all Tolkien's fault. If Sam Gamgee had not asked for rope from the elves, we would not be having this...

The idea that there is some fundamental in-fiction difference between a thief and a warrior doesn't seem very plausible to me. It's a...

So by that light is not Aragorn Tolkien's Mary-Sue? He's certainly more perfect than Conan. Or maybe Beren, whose name Tolkien had put...

A thief is someone who steals things, who takes what isn't theirs. You can add some nuance to it by dividing them up by method – a...

Can you elaborate on that? I neither understand what you mean by "broken down to a skill", nor do I understand how you are defining...

I'll add that the claim "thievery is just skills, and that's different from class abilities" is a fallacy that I'm guessing traces back...

I don't find the comparison of RPG design to the design of safe vehicles very compelling. I think it tends to distort rather than...

The problem is the combination of per-attack fumble chance and representing the increased lethality at higher levels through multiple...

1) They don't say exactly, only if the spell would work 2) Why is that a problem, exactly? They worked hard to weaken the enemy so that...

Reflecting on my little dungeon, I decided to add a little bit of intellectualism to it: Entry floor: There are frescoes – of planets...

Throw me in on the Torchbearer train as well. It's been my system of choice since the pandemic.

This post reminded me to finish reading my TB2e books... Anyway, looks really cool!