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We played a Greek-like if you squint themed campaign called Odyssey of the Dragonlords that had a standing mythological “law” that...

If your game gives players a sheet full of stuff to look at, but relying on that sheet creates unsatisfying play, either you built the...

That's great that WFRP also does it. I'm sure other RPGs do as well. There are thousands of them.

Rolemaster's critical did that somewhat because they were sometimes dependant. Your opponent cast a lightning bolt at you? Take 23 hits...

I would, but then I'd have the unequip my onion, and that is decidedly against the fashion of the time.

I said "simple." ;) OK, fair enough...thought still a bit more complicated than I'd like, and I'm always a bit leery on "chart-dependence."

WFRP did all this in 1987

Read the book for yourself and then at least your opinion will have weight. I don’t think anyone has said that. I know what I’ve...

Rolemaster solved this circa 1980. Both combatants have an Offensive Bonus (OB) resulting from their skill, strength, positional...

But . . . but . . . my results table goes to 11!

Ok, let's back up a second shall we? We're all DM's. All of us here are running games. So, that means that every single poster here...

Second prize is two copies….

I remember that. They were NOT saying that the game itself wasn't performing up to expectations, wasn't selling as many traditionally...

The boundary between "I'm an expert" and "I know more than you" in presentation is blurry and often dependent on the relative confidence...

Treating myself to this after a long day in the Sun at day 1 of The Nordic Youth championship in Archery.. Crisp bread with butter on...