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I've always felt they leaned much more into task, rather than action resolution, too (though the ones I'm familiar don't fully commit to...

Its not just the die roll but the all-or-nothing element. Fundamentally, I think 5e went about reducing mod bloat entirely the wrong...

Three hours in ER today with my dad. He's fine, but there are better ways to spend a Saturday afternoon.

I may be more tolerant of some problems that delay products, even for a very long time than others (and I understand why some others are...

This seems flawed to me. The GM acts as the PCs' senses and needs to accurately convey information they would have. In the modern era...

Power is in your hands too though, if you stop responding to them, then conversation will also stop. To @hawkeyefan point though it...

Or, as I point out in regard to this all the time, you can just stop yourself. That's the thing; people don't have a right to tell...

From my perspective, it's not about what you care for or not (I do not care what you or anyone cares for or not). I am quite confident...

Unless you're actively in combat or a dangerous environment, that 3.5 character is presumably taking 10. With any positive Strength...

Sure. It was an unforeseen problem when TTRPGs were young and largely untested. We've had plenty of time for that to get better, for us...

Its been so long since I read any of the RM systems I didn't feel competent to comment on it. I think I've seen something like that...

I'm not going to comment on game I do not own nor have read, though I'm not usually a fan of that sort of initiative.

And thank you for so eloquently highlighting my point. Three separate checks to get through a kitchen, multiplied by each PC and any...

Though part of this is how severe "failure" is assumed to be in a lot of cases; if you can recover from individual failures, and the...

Not saying that you don't already know this, but, for the audience, I would point out that 10 rolls at 2% is not equal to 20%. That is...