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Samuel R. Delany, Nova. It's fun, it's intellectually satisfying, it prefigures tons of core concepts of later science fiction, it is...

To get further sidetrecked: How do people feel about diegetic/extradiegetic metacurrency? Personally, I'm fine with metacurrency (though...

I found myself rotating back to the more "open" games I was used to in the nineties, the ones that didn't got totally overboard with the...

That's one that I didn't get on the page, as well. So effectively, you just get a +6 in your primary attributes, right? But instead...

I think there are a few RPGs that come up with a cool, innovative idea that they love, build their system around it ... and then it...

Generally, I like roll-under, because it seems most straight-forward to me. My score directly tells me my success range, without any...

Actually, that doesn't bother me that much ... they may be rounding errors, but they are there, which is sufficient for me. I'm not...

Except that it has. All other RPGs are rounding errors compared to the popularity of D&D. Hell, some older editions of D&D are more...

I won't claim moral superiority, but once you end up learning several languages - for whatever reason -, you realize how rewarding it...

No, it's not a US mentality. It's evidence of a universal mentality: people tend to learn 2nd (and additional languages) when there is...

Possibly ... I'm in Germany, and I think d20 not had that kind of sway over the market here back then, so I kind of didn'gt really...

You're right, and I'm fine with all of that. I'm not taking issue with the net effect of the OGL, it's great. I'm just taking issue with...

Well, to someone who isn't that interested in D&D, the difference boils down to "should we ruin your hobby?", or "Should we almost ruin...

I was there. Yes, that was the plan.

But you do see how saying "the problem is competitive systems" (talking about the the problem of RPGs in general), taken together with...