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The side effects often sound worse then the condition they are supposed to relieve.

Someone on EvilBuy is trying to sell a copy of Casca: The Eternal Mercenary #1 by Barry Saddler for $1400...

I tend to agree that they're not a simulation (in the sense I'm using it, which is, again, to make it clear, excluding genre emulation...

Maybe, but it does mean that in a world of adventuring parties, defending against them is mostly an idiot's game. Certainly anything...

D&D 5.5's efforts of streamlining are exactly what I don't want. Why can't crunchy systems be allowed to remain crunchy systems? There's...

Except its even worth with D&D/F20 parties because they A) Are more analogous to commando groups that conventional forces, and B) Above...

Well, it doesn't help that plastic surgery is one of the areas most ripe to corruption in the medial field, either. I used to have a...

The original Arduin Grimoire volumes aren't a game in their own right. They don't say what they are, but they're a load of add-ons for...

The problem is that unless you've already got a second defensive perimeter around the "dungeon", that still favors the attackers; they...

Yeah, its got a different take. Its got some mechanically interesting parts too, though there were also some odd decisions in a couple...

I think Vault does a combination of this if I'm not conflating.

I tended to find the ones at Del Taco fairly consistent. Didn't eat them much because there wasn't much else there I liked, but on the...

But that's not really what @Hussar is saying. He's saying "You do X? But I've been told by everyone that you can't do X!" No matter what...

I like the way 13th age does it. There are some exceptions, but for the most part it works like this: your race gives you the choice of...

I think my issue with it is that it presumes that character creation, including background, is something done in isolation. As in "We're...