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Perhaps you could keep it to the actual principles involved, rather than providing play examples that do a poor job of reflecting the...

"Always" makes some big assumptions about the combat system involved; not all of them have a slow pace of resolution.

Hard as it may be for you to get it, there are plenty of games where, within the range of events you've chosen to get into, the risk of...

I'd suggest that's a definitional issue; I'd certainly consider succeeding at what my character is trying to do winning, and I'd bet...

While a legitimate point, the numbers I quoted were not for just professional climbers but competent amateurs too, and while I agree...

Uhm, a D20 is emulating a 50th of a D1000, and the D1000 would only be allowing you to trigger a secondary roll if you wanted to...

Heck, I'd argue that 6e is mostly interchangeable, and I started about the same time you did. There's probably one important thing in...

Or, of course, some liminal space amidst the three. One of the reasons you only see me take on subsubjects in these sort of discussions...

I realized the irony about halfway through, but just like in d&d retreat is never a good option ;)

I'm shocked that citing the authority of academic sources wasn't able to solve a division in what "appeal to authority" means. :)

The problem, as I've noted, is unless you're making rolls using D1000's and the like, except in situations where the failure chance has...

For some people it absolutely is. The fact its not for you doesn't change that.

Because the chances of falling to your death are legitimately less than 1 in 20, and because I'm playing a game with people whom I don't...

I consider it a viable way to do so, at least under some circumstances. I've mentioned the way research and knowledge skills operate in...

Then I'm afraid I've lost the thread.