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What scares people about 4e is that it's too real. 😉

The thing I like about Damage on a Miss is, it accurately depicts my anxiety at almost getting beaned by a flying bit of road debris...

And this is a pretty standard GMing tactic. You know what? I want to know what the structure of one of your games is like. How do you...

I'm not trying to trick anyone into anything. I'm pointing out that the things you're complaining about are things you're already doing.

The issue is not in-game time. In-game time can pass at the rate of seconds per hour of play, or years per hour of play, depending on...

Dude real food is like this too

Does Babylon 5 count yet?

I think this is good play, nice. I did a similar thing a long time back. At the climax of a cyberpunk campaign the PCs had uncovered a...

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