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I wonder how forgotten at least a few of the nerdy examples there are. Dark Shadows isn't, for example.

Eh. Whether you apply difficulty directly or by modifying a roll is basically irrelevant; the probabilities are and whether the...

Its not intrinsically harder; if its pulpy, you can handle the problem with luck points and the like. If not, and not having good...

The thing about "gritty low-fantasy" settings with visceral, brutal combat that I think a lot of people gloss over is the copious...

The problem is that its never been generic. Too many of the mechanics are too specific for that (the specifics of classes and spells...

There were a lot of PrCs in the 3e era that were absolutely traps once you got into them (and some that were virtually intelligence...

But the rest of that almost doesn't matter. The character knows things they are not supposed to know. Even if its a taken that certain...

My late, great Scruffy: @payn, my condolences. I was a mess after Scruffy passed away (he had congestive heart failure and we...

Though this assumes "what you choose to be" isn't expecting a certain degree of competence to go with it. I'm not sure a lot of people...

@payn, I'm so damn sorry. I've said before that the one curse that dogs lay on us is that they live so much shorter than we do. It...

For what its worth, that was more or less what the old RGFA simulationists seemed to think of as one of its defining traits. Its one...

I'm watching Space Above and beyond on youtube and this was in it. It takes place in 2063

That was kind of what I meant by "hard to do" in that context; that you kind of need to go out of your way to ruin potatoes (barring the...

There were also some timing things in Hero about active defenses like Dodge and Block that I can't help but think would get--odd.

I never found a 7 that much of an issue when everyone else was SPD 5-6