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It's actually even a bit nicer. In combat you can do other things with the special successes -- like knock opponents away, make a...

If anyone had the answer to that question, we'd save so many GMs from burnout or player-caused PTSD.

I loved [Keywords] in 4e. I thought it was a marvelous design concept. Magic missile causes [Force] damage. That damage is affected...

Except that doing that is almost 100% guaranteed to not happen--and, worse, two people can look at the same natural-language terms and...

"Natural English" leads to far more confusion and ambiguity. I greater prefer the emphasis on Keywords for clarity. Your argument...

I quite like keywords, so if they're actually using them well, that sounds good to me. I'm not at all confident that they are using...

Keywords are great. One great flaw in 5E is that it is very rules-hesitant. It feels like the designers are ashamed of actual mechanics...

More rolling is bad; more dice being rolled is less bad, but requires more "understanding time". I have players at my table that -...

Star Wars/Genesys provides a two-dimensional... I guess you could call it "success matrix". There are successes and failures, which...

Having run both systems, I can say that they don’t quite occupy the same writer’s room space, and players can often “purchase” benefits...

Not quite. Genesys uses six different dice types, three "good" and three "bad". The good dice have various combinations of successes and...

I do like Daggerheart's solution (hardly unique, I realize) of success or failure with Hope or Fear.

Sometimes I like it - if it's a description of a particularly evocative establishing shot, or a crucial bit of dialogue. For the most...

Read-aloud text is nice to have, but it's even nicer if the important parts of it get called out somehow (e.g. underlining). That makes...

I always disliked being told what I felt or did. I prefer just being told what I see. That has always been my biggest issue with read...