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It depends. If they're standing in the open blazing away, yeah. If they were actually doing what serious real world combatants do...

Well, honestly in a lot of military campaigns you aren't even going to have those filled at +0. After all, if its not specifically...

That's you. I saw any number of Trav games where starships were just things that got you from here to there, not things you expected...

Yeah, I played with a lot of RQ players over the years and that seems--exceedingly idiosyncratic--from my experience. It also tends to...

Yeah, there's matters of degree here. Even in cinematic movie combat there's a lot of near misses and grazing shots where a solid hit...

Honestly, even a military game can end up having almost no space combat. Though its been so long I don't remember if Pilot is also used...

Well, it’s restating an OSR maxim that I personally think is poorly thought out in its original form and this just included an example I...

I'll note that it's entirely possible for someone you disagree with about just about anything to be much more a hero than a villain (by...

I found a bunch of stock art I like! Seems the guy doing a bunch of the Shadowdark stuff is part of a group. I'll be able to finish all...

Old age/old injury damage should be in d4s, the most painful of all dice.

Its one of those ideas that plays well with selective parts of the hobby.

Well, that was the point; that was often a houserule (even if not called that) by the late OD&D period because there was nothing else to...

A few auxiliary rules and and systems leaned into simulation to some degree. They kind of stood out in that regard for pretty much the...

That's very possible too, but it wasn't like there was a massive tendency in that direction early on or certain games would have ended...

Though with some of the optional rules baked in, the actual results don't feel particularly unrealistic, even if the process as you say...