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Well, there's an emotional connection that can't entirely be escaped from. (You also have to deal with a game system that's output is...

It tends to be pretty obvious if something is actively interfering with a Gamist preference, though (and whatever the theoretical...

Some folks may be mistaking the mechanics for the simulation. The actual simulation is the result. Preferences that get in the way of...

Well, to some extent that's probably inevitable when you've got something that is firehosing steel. Even things like BARs can't match...

Or the known tendency for adrenaline to give you the shakes. Though it has some benefits in dealing with pain and trauma, its not...

Not going back to try and parse this discussion, but usually the common-sense approach of trying to use two words in a similar context...

Every word has purpose and meaning; what is frustrating and annoying is when a term is overly misused. This is especially true for any...

so this showed up while in the hospital i had ordered it before i went in, i plan to start it later this week

Maybe "being kind" is the real punk rock.

Absolutely. And dueling blades are kind of an outlier at least to some extent, since they were mostly used in a period when anything...

Yeah, but assuming you don't assume really static combat, there's always attacks coming in at angles not intended. Even good...

Yeah, there's some limitations based on few games really getting into weapon types. You can address that sort of problem but it usually...

It is kind of the low-hanging-fruit of mechanics-for-game-convenience. Even AC looks better if you know the original designers came...

I have advocated this. Beyond that, 5e variants like Level Up provide much more choice within the class system, so two characters with...

Yeah, its just not hard for aborbtion/deflection of damage and avoidance being conflated to produce some really odd results sometimes.