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There is at least one youtuber that has been saying this for years and years now. Long slow spiral into doom.

It's not an OGL thing or a DnD thing. Humans in general are hooked on rage clicks, that's why social media works

I’ve seen the “Combat as War vs. Combat as Sport” framework come up a lot in TTRPG discussions, and I think it’s a very useful...

That's an interesting attempt at an end-run around copyright law so you don't have to credit or pay the original creators, but it...

Good! If people can't be bothered to create things themselves why should that cost me money?

These seem to be pretty similar ideas. A world where events occur with the regularity of a metronome is just as "meta" as the OotS...

Hey, this has been a really fruitful discussion for me. Once again, the pushback and questioning helps me think about (dare I say...

I'm your opposite number: I LOVE skills and skill systems in RPGs. I do look askance at the skill-improvement mechanic you describe...

I see. In my case I was thinking more like "the patrols pass by every (varies, let's say 2 minutes); you have X amount of downtime for...

I suppose I could have titled the thread “What happens if you…” and then described a narrow definition of skill use. I guess I learned...

Pretty much all knowledge checks in skill-based systems basically acknowledge that a particular character's knowledge is all in a...

Interjecting this article as it is pretty relevant to the conversation. It's focused on Fate specifically but imo is applicable for any...

The way I do this in Shadowdark is that an attempt at something costs a "crawling round" which increases the chances of random...

Sure. Absolutely. It matters more if every 10 minutes is a new random encounter check, than in a 3.x /5.x, PF2, GURPS, etc game where a...

I recently reached this point too, as a result of three things. Seeing a comment in the Daggerheart book about 'only roll when there's...