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Or do you agree 8 times out of 8?

I find myself disinclined to run systems with chunky skill lists. At this point I really don't care about 6 different firearms skills...

To be fair, it was never about realism, but rather the sense of realism. There is a huge difference between the two, and everyone's line...

When I did my skills, I definitely pooled many of them together. It makes so much more sense to me. My History/Religion skill is an...

The TOR system has an interesting take on this: While a Gandalf rune on the d12 is an automatic success regardless of dice total, an Eye...

No offense, I am not sure it's a win or lose thing. It's a situation where, I believe, the OP learned that the definition of...

Personally, never had problems with amount of time people took to make a decision at the table. That part is usually fast. How long does...

Speaking of mechanics, a long time ago we greatly enjoyed the MERP systems style of combat. It was D100, but you could take your skill...

I dislike non-intuitive magic numbers in core mechanics. The cut-off points for PbTA 2d6 & Draw Steel 2d10 Power roll. In Ironsworn...

We've been using Daggerheart for our latest campaign. The 2d12, aside from increasing critical successes (as opposed to a d20), does...

What's weird is that it isn't the numbers that matter, it's what the numbers equate to in game terms. Without knowing what each of...

Riffing off of what @Scott Christian wrote above, some thoughts (that stray from "core mechanics"): First, I strongly believe that...

I'm assuming you know this, but that kind of rule, especially with that specific short a time frame, is tantamount to "Don't play in...

It's just another version of "people don't know how to answer a question succinctly and move along." They think while they talk.

Oh, that can happen all of the time. I could probably list a dozen games that I like the overall game, but one or more of the mechanics...