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It generally is. But there are other factors that produce the more grounded feeling (you have nothing like level elevating hit points...

Because I've seen seen plenty of people treat it as so? That doesn't mean they're going to go to the trouble of addressing it, or don't...

All right, that's fair. I'm not sure I entirely understand the distinction you're making, but I'm willing to accept I may have applied...

I saw the smiley, but the effect is still the same: things do not constantly get worse. That's very much an artifact of cinematic...

The focus on Complication as a virtue seemed present in both Monster of the Week and Monsterhearts to my reading, and if I understood...

Even in a D20 system, a lot of it will depend on the way difficulty is scaled, but you still have to deal with the question of whether...

In novels, I see plenty of narrative space where all that's happening is people investigating things or talking to people without things...

So it's not so much that you're not willing to compromise, just that there's no actual push to change at all, and thus compromise is...

To make it clear, I don't object to any of these in principal either; the problem (as I see it, and it seems to be many players do) is...

Well, the simple answer there is that to most people its simply a waste of time; it ties up attention and handling for something that...

Its not motion; its complication. That's important. I suspect very few people would object to every roll having some effect, if most...

I was just noting there were functions that doing something like that can be serving, even if that particular execution left something...

Take10 definitely dealt with some of the derpiness that could show even with avowedly skilled characters in that era of D&D (especially...

I'm a big proponent of Take 10/20, definitely the most maligned mechanic from the era. They cleared up most of the issues of the big...

Well, I have to point out part of that is D&D spellcasting doesn't involve any skill rolls. Games in the D&D sphere are pretty unique...