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My opinion on 8AM time slots is not fit for this family friendly forum.

Dammit, Jim, I'm an engineer, not a statistician! (And a civil engineer at that...)

Worth noting that AGE sort of hacks 3d6 to have a system for more common "crits" by creative use of both doubles and degrees of success...

Yeah, I ran 4 4-hour slots in 2 days and it was GLORIOUS. (I don't do 8 AM slots, which why only 2 a day. There's drinking to be done...

I'm going to have to hit some cons once I have my two PoD books released.

A Shadowdark convention would be cool. I’d go if things lined up. And I’d go back to my old habit of running hours and hours of games.

No, but that's not a bad idea, especially given all the Shadowdark variants and 3rd party spin-off games.

Sure. Again, I was responding to a specific comment. The Marvel game uses a 3d6 pool, but only one (the marvel die) determines a...

That's interesting. How have you seen that manifest?

I meant compared to 3d6.

I agree with this. As I said upthread, it's one reason I'm deeply skeptical of companies that port their system to every genre...

Sections of GaryCon certainly felt that way last year.

Tangentially related: is there a Shadowdark only convention? ShadowCon or whatever. I'd love to try a one game convention and can't...

The d20 has the advantage of fairly regular "crits." That's just generally makes the game more exciting.

The comparison isnt the same when you dig into the details. PF2 buckets feats into type and level so you never have very large lists...