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Though that only works because the penalty applies to all actions. If you only penalize successive actions it creates an incentive to...

That’s an amusing typo or brain fart 😂 SWADE hits my sweet spot so an easy 6 on the scale for me. But the most important thing is that...

Its a bit a matter of perspective. I personally find PF2e much less heavy in the handling in many ways than D&D3 and its offshoots, so...

The solution a number of games have is to make the guard whatever they call "mooks", so they're easily taken out by one hit. This...

Star Fleet Battles, 18XX series games, Starfire, Babylon 5 wars.... Me, I don't mind moderate complexity as long as it increases the...

The overlap of "people who don't listen to rock song lyrics" and "people who get triggered by discovering their favorite artists have...

I find my prefences vary depending upon things like genre/sub genre, tone, one-shot vs campaign (and length), the license (for licensed...

This discussion seems to suffer from the "Everything is a 7" problem that so often follows every 10 point scale. If the gap between a 6...

Yeah, that's fair. I have some questions regarding my own; I have the sense I want things less complex than I did a decade or two ago...

I'd suspect you have the answer generally there; probably the material they've been trained on has enough decent samples of simple...

Its really hard for me to assess that on a complexity scale, since I've known it so long that even though I don't use it any more, it...

At least of the ones I'm familiar with (M&M, Icon Assembled, Black Star, Cortex Plus, Savage Worlds and Outgunned) aren't really are in...

As with many things, the word "extraneous" may be doing some heavy lifting here. But to me, most of the time having to mess too much...

Ah. Special casing and the like. I'm not a fan of that either (I've been on record more than once saying I think most incarnations of...

Like most editions of D&D- even my preferred 3.5Ed.