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I remembered something filled the rune niche, but didn't remember what (and its always possible the playtest doc didn't spell it out...

I'd have to sit down and think, honestly. I remember seeing the sort of thing I referenced but--I'm quite old, and own quite a lot of...

Honesty, if I couldn't get that out of an RPG, I probably wouldn't bother with RPGs.

Given his expansion in the climbing example above, I can think of research rules in a few games that do. I'm not entirely sure they'd...

Precisely. I think there is unique value to the TTRPG form that doesn't come solely at the expense of all the other stuff.

The problem is that some of us really do want out chocolate with our peanut butter.

The classic answer for people with pretty hard-edged player/GM responsibility separation is "The GM will decide when its needed."

Maybe not in your D&D games. I've been doing that for a long time. How else am I supposed to know if there's a cleric in the town? I...

Could you elaborate on what you mean here? I don't think I understand the question.

I believe from my reading that they took the PF2e approach; you don't replace the weapon, you just upgrade its effectiveness some...

One of my classmates at university was furious when he got ticketed for DUI while riding his bike.

I specifically mentioned legal definitions because I moderate the legal section of a motorcycle message board, in Canada, and more than...

Yeah, early on in the history of common computer usage, library usage for the word "software" was for media, what later came to be...