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Point. I prefer damage reduction personally. But to be fair most of my sim work for RPGs is for outside combat anyway, because my...

I think they've been more focused on Fantasy AGE 2e and support for same recently.

The more I read people comments to these situations, it becomes more apparent how much the final customer is oblivious to how their...

While it struck me as a slightly odd choice, there's been a strain of viewing Jor-El in that direction since back when Byrne was writing...

I really wouldn't say that's true, its been really reliable for us across like 6 years of play.

I think it would be even more simple and realistic if a “hit that overcame armor” meant the target went down. (PCs and other important...

Ah, so it was probably a question of usage than of the weapon, per se.

So you have some specific preferences. Awesome. We're happy for you. But please stop telling other experienced Traveller players that...

As I’ve said before, some odd decisions went into D&D's design: hit points go up dramatically with level (and without magic), to-hit...

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...