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Why not play Rolemaster?

@pemerton One area that Eero Tuovinen really fails to grasp at when it comes to simulation (and I think this has been a general...

Unlikely.

Mentzer red box D&D from Trapnell's model shop, I would guess 1987 or 1988. Age 10 or 11. I was already into Fighting Fantasy books and...

Kind of amazing how an example designed to make fail forward look ridiculous makes it look ridiculous. A much more artful version of the...

4e fighters. They have a clear focus about what they do, they're good at that thing, they have interesting decisions to make about how...

Instead of changing feats or sticking with an unfun RAW version, have you considered just using the version that you all like and...

Why should I care what some random website says? I'm talking about an actual thing invented by actual game designers and incorporated...

Agreed. They should have had it as only ever a GM-assigned modifier to the circumstances of that roll. That is to say, no published...

Although 2014 also featured Monte Cook's freshly invented idea of passive perception ;)

And the former was rampantly overused. Weapon of first resort when it was designed as a weapon of last resort.

2014's main advances AFAIR were advantage/disadvantage and the pseudo-narrative background traits, the latter of which they got rid of.

Is that it, no other good ones?!

No, I think it's a good point. Most social situations or exploration scenes aren't run in an initiative sequence. Personally when I GM...

So, let's say I write an RPG in my spare time and it's perfect. Everyone that reads it wants to play it and everyone that plays it stops...