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Absolutely. And dueling blades are kind of an outlier at least to some extent, since they were mostly used in a period when anything...

Yeah, but assuming you don't assume really static combat, there's always attacks coming in at angles not intended. Even good...

Yeah, there's some limitations based on few games really getting into weapon types. You can address that sort of problem but it usually...

It is kind of the low-hanging-fruit of mechanics-for-game-convenience. Even AC looks better if you know the original designers came...

I have advocated this. Beyond that, 5e variants like Level Up provide much more choice within the class system, so two characters with...

Yeah, its just not hard for aborbtion/deflection of damage and avoidance being conflated to produce some really odd results sometimes.

Well, not to the same degree. There are games that while they wouldn't leave you deterministically safe in that situation, would make...

I've been of the opinion for some time now that Nicolas Hoult is a quite underrated actor. I quite loved it. I could go onto why, but...

That's more or less what I meant. I don't think any character generation system I'm liable to find satisfactory is going to be simple...

I just usually have a bit too much look-and-feel I expect when going in. On the other hand, if it isn't too intrusive, I can end up...

Well, the time frame doesn't suggest he had a lot of time to follow-through there. He didn't expect the impact it'd have on Rex.

The problem with the licensed RPGs can be tied to the long approval processes and also the short licenses now being offered by companies...

I would agree that the willingness needs to be there. I would also say that what people verbally say they are willing to do often does...

I think the combination of things in this phrase are doing some very heavy lifting in some, maybe many cases here.

Of course if the system is that much off what I'd expect, I usually just start by going to another system, but I understand that's not a...