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I was in my mid 20s when this site launched. 26 years ago…

Yeah, and there's still enough books around and individuals exposed to it to remember things like germ theory. It'd be a hard row to...

As I recall, our ancestors survived a population bottleneck with something like only 10k individuals. The nukes thing would complicate...

That was how I felt when I saw it; the most radical thing seemed the handling of spells and the attack rolls against Reflex, Fortitude...

Their eyes were watching God ...

Only works if players will use them. Too many won't. There's a reason I refuse to run every other or once a month again.

No Kings! There are so many people here today!!

What people could see of my face probably looked younger than half the people in this thread, but I was already 63 at that point...

Yeah, while its particularly common in the D&D community, I've occasionally hit people who who've only played, say, FATE driven games...

Yeah. Kind of the price of the relatively insular game culture parts of D&D have produced.

I kinda misunderstood your previous post - I was agreeing with the idea that players not expecting / knowing of objective DCs for a hard...

As others have said, you just make variations on the 4 core classes to arive at what you want. F-Age (all AGE for that matter) inherits...

They've seen it in other games (including some prior versions of D&D) and just took it as a given? Its not like people don't carry over...

I can see how people who'd never seen it otherwise would not expect or, really, even understand the idea of quasi-objective DCs.