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Yes, exactly this! It leans into what I really love about D&D and 5E in particular, without being constrained by D&D's history and...

So clearly Sandy has been doing his research (and GMing of 12+ years working towards this system.) - Its very refined: They have taken...

Not at all what I am addressing. The idea that someone is trying to impose a playstyle or mechanic need on a system that does not...

I mean, it often is, both on a macro and micro level, with RPGs. Like, the way D&D is played now is absolutely "playing it wrong"...

I think there are two parts to this, but only one of the parts is important. The first is that, if a game is more fun when not played...

Putting aside the fact that I think the Horus Heresy peaked as a two page write-up in the original Rogue Trader, this is now a cow that...

Yeah, that's a thing. As some others have mentioned, when playing games with complications besides just success/failure it doesn't feel...

I don't want some weird story game where success is determined first and then portioned out over play; it was a strange conflict model...

Well, let's start by "are we both playing the game." And no, from your post it sounds like you have not played it yet, so.... Listen...

I'm the GM for the game in question. I run almost exclusively Powered by the Apocalypse and Forged in the Dark games. That every Fear is...

We disagree. It in fact, does not match any manner of story in a meaningful way. The takeaway was that in a game where dice rolls...

We have run into issues with this and found balance to not be true at all. Each player has seen rolls of about half the time we roll...

And the simple answer is "because I want to do a range of things as part of a varied campaign where we get to keep the same characters...

Awesome! I will link these ideas to my players, and see what we can cum up with, thanks! @Campbell

So, there are basically 4 places we could block any given action in a roleplaying game: Intent: a character wants to do something...