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It seems far easier to calculate your odds for success. I mean, to math your chances in a d20 game, you look at the DC, subtract your...

Very much so. True also of games like Fate and Everway. For spy games by the way, even though I dislike the Gumshoe system, Night’s...

Not just you. When Cook started describing the project, I was hooked. I love all his inspirations, and had tried to base campaigns on...

And maybe that's an argument with the D&D-sphere proper. I don't think its an excuse for using that framework in genres where for the...

Yeah, but there's no reason to really have them increase at all. That's an artifact of deciding that higher level fighters should be...

I'm not sure I'd say "accessible" (because some of that has to do with things entirely unrelated to mechanics), but I think comparing...

Being real, I can't see that levels and increasing HP based on level "make the game more playable", because games like CoC are more...

Its not like D&D hit points are particularly realistic, either. If they were people wouldn't be taking sword thrusts and just routinely...

Yes, but the difference is that an elevanting hit point model very much makes it one that generally favors you (note the "elevating" is...

Even most action-adventure spies don't land there; look at Bond. I'm not talking about quasi-realistic spy stories. But this is a case...

What don't you understand? The point seems incredibly clear. D&D doesn't have characters "only succumb to their wounds when it's...

Trying to decide on the new Mongoose Travelller campaign Singularity. Normally a no brainer but recent economic stuff puts a lot of...

John's even less like a typical spy character than those two.

Neither of those are typical spies. They're waaay up near the edge of certain types of cop characters. Notice how much time they spend...

Not sure they're typically similar in that regard; fantasy heroes are far more prone, on the whole, to take a beating and keep going...