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It honestly doesn't help that in some cases what "realistic" would look like is either unclear, or people have some ideas about it that...

There are certainly games that make one-shot kills unlikely, but not impossible, and give players some tools to avoid that while making...

In a thread about realistic combat, I kind of took it as a given that the hyperstylization of games in the D&D sphere were already off...

And the game has been getting better at removing those kinds of things from the core gameplay of the classes. Which is why the paladin...

Worked with a company (rhymes with Lasgro) through a licensee agreement and this how at least one of their other major franchises work...

Its an SF dungeon crawl after all.

SWADE has a good cross section of stat blocks in the core rulebook. You can easily tweak any of them on the fly.

Yeah, there was a time I could have done that with RuneQuest or Hero without too much of a struggle. Like I said, I'm just rusty.

The only thing I'd need specifically was stats for opponents, but given the somewhat schematic nature of SWADE, if the sample opponents...

While its not a complete case, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about systems that allow you to avoid being hit. In...

Of your strong opinions I see consistently, this is the one that really makes me bristle every time. I disagree fervently, and I...

Again, I think this is mostly just semantics. My point is it’s not problematic in a game where it’s an expectation. And if loss of...

It's one of few well-populated and well-moderated RPG-related forums still in active use. I'm just here to monitor TTRPGs General to...

Doesn't change the point that the roll still tells you how capable the opponent attempting it is. It just changes the nature of the...

You're making an assumption. In most games they don't get hit often. That's the point; they survive by avoiding the hit in the first...