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You're making me wish I had a picture when I singed my eyebrows off from being too close to our ancient gas heater when I was trying to...

I had the reverse. Being assumed by a convenience store clerk to be the father of a man in his mid-30s with thinning hair and a beard (a...

I happened to talk to the guy who does the gardening for us (because he's been doing it since my parents owned this house and his rates...

I'll note again that nothing says roll-under methods can't take modifiers for difficulty. Any number of games do that.

I've had the strange experience over my life that people never seem to think I'm my age, off by five to ten years in one direction or...

Well, I moved on to RuneQuest pretty early on, so obviously I think they were at least moderately effective. :) Speaking of...

I'm just saying chasing down the parallels to to-hit are probably not a useful road to go. Your general point isn't unsound, but that...

Once you start down that road pretty much all the traditional D&D attributes can seem too lumpy.

Don't have a lot of older selfies kept around, for reasons that I would assume are obvious, but I did find one from eight years ago, if...

I feel like this has the goalpost sliding a little bit. For some of the people here, especially in this discussion, the style of...

Eh, not entirely. A lot of save-to-half spells in D&D are, essentially, autohits; there's no targeting on the part of the caster, and...

Well, that's part of it, and part of it is what hit points are. If you roll fatigue and minor injury into that pile too, its not that...

Depends on "have no interest in" here. I'd day I'd have to be actively put-off by the style of the game not to run it; "no interest in"...

I think people have baked in the idea that's okay for spells in a way they don't for most conventional attacks from decades of usage...

Maybe in some cases its just GMs with broader tastes than their players. If I had narrower tastes--or a strong swing in my players...