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Not by RAW. By RAW you can do it in one action, which is 6 seconds. It takes that 6 seconds skilled, less skilled, or non-skilled...

Personally I think everyone should make thier favorite game thier own by Heartbreaking the heck out of it. Homebrew to make the game...

Picture courtesy of Pixabay. I mention these trends not to mock them; they are often viable and worthwhile ideas or a phase we all go...

Where do you think the streamers got their advice from?

I have also stated it provide a structure of play and responsibilities that is helpful for simulation. This happen to be shared among...

bad luck is fine for climbing, bad luck is fine for lockpicking too, however, the existence of a cook is not a consequence of bad luck...

I think the overall anti-tesis to your thesis is yes to your last question. I think the issue is that once you give the GM the level of...

And yet folks seem to understand me anyway. Can't be that nonsensical.

I didn't remember the exact wording but the result is the same. The phrasing doesn't really matter, the player is obviously going to...

Substitute "Gee, I sure wish" with "Guessed". Poe-tae-toe poe-tah-toe.

I kind of feel that setting out to do “hard” SF is like handing everyone in the audience a baseball bat and asking them to hit you with it.

Yes, but they tend to speak of it in a general sense - "This movie has the best science ever!" Sure, except for the climate science...

These are clues perhaps, but there is a wide range of abilities here. Michael Crichton is a good acid test. He uses science and...

Why is that not authoring? You consciously chose to think of a bar.

And I don't agree with that. A lot of writing attempts you find out by doing them if you have the skill for it. And it may not be...