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Short term (that is over the course of the combat you took it in) that's more true than you'd think, given research on trauma. Turns...

Yeah, when I bought the revised version not long ago (I thought if I was going to even passingly talk about PbtA games I should have...

I'm quite looking forward to this (but then, I liked the far-future period more than a lot of people apparently); if anything I've seen...

I've known a few people who gave up playing or GMing, and just wrote for A&E. Plus somebody who has been designing what he considers to...

My own feeling is twofold: 1. Does it genuinely interest me, either to read or play (and yes, I'm quite capable of finding a way to run...

"I don't like the way this discussion is going, so I'm gonna stink up the room until it gets locked by the moderat...hey! Why can't I...

The GM doesn't set the difficulty in GURPS, but the GM can include penalties and bonuses to the difficulty based on external factors...

I agree it so for certain genres, which probably are along realistic "slice of life documentary" styles. Not sure I'd count western...

I didn't even realize that was about the remake. I should learn to pay more attention.

I know you said "almost" (and I want to acknowledge that because it annoys me to no end if I qualify something and people act like I...

That was more or less what I remembered, but I haven't run the system in decades (and it was always possible I was conflating it with...

Uhm, "when" matters a fair bit with some of those, at least regarding sequence if not precisely which when. There are some martial...

Aylee... 19 years old and disappeared from my fenced-in back yard when I let her out to do her business. I never got to say a last...

I think you're mistaken here. I remember plenty of modifiers for physical skills based on situation at least.