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Honestly, most fixed-hit point model systems do, to some degree.

A big point is that hit point attrition, which is pretty fundamental to D&D-style systems, has little place in spy and super-spy...

Except that the description you keep giving is NOTHING like what such DMs run. That's where the disconnect is. The phrases you used...

I've never seen anything like what you describe. I have never heard of it from anyone but you. I have spent pushing 20 years frequenting...

Yeah, charitably, Bloodtide is living in some kind of odd gaming pocket (such things can occur). Otherwise you have to assume the...

In one case I blocked someone, whose opinion I agreed with, because they wouldn't just let a disagreement die out and was sometimes...

In all three cases, it was not about what they said but their manner. One of the three I was pretty consistently on the same side in...

That's often the risk with ongoing maintenance goals (whether a ship in Traveler or real property in some fantasy or post-apocalypse...

I agree, motivation has been the bane of many of my Traveller games. Again, major brownie points for Pirates of Drinax as the...

I have described it as a sandbox hexcrawl in the past, so this is probably the thread where I should talk about my campaign some more...

It helps that they aren't trying to offload too many things on one die. When you have three or four special results you should read...

I* have had a grand total of three people blocked since I've been here (one of whom is gone now), but apparently I'm irritating enough...

Just checked in on one of those threads (you know the ones). I have my settings configured to show me 20 posts per page and there were...

Not related to the above. It's always so disappointing to see people you admire talk up people you despise. It never results in...

I've not done it to a lamp post, but I'm pretty sure I've apologized to a car I bumped walking by too close.