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Not to put too fine a point on it but--different people care about different things. News at 11.

Honestly, that'd be true of most attacks if people had seen serious wounds before. Exterior wounding of any account is--not pretty--at...

Probably prohibitive licensing conditions/costs. Licensed games are really far more fraught than most people realize.

Reduced a bit of the tendency for Dexterity to be the god-stat. Not a perfect solution for the reasons you say (though I vaguely...

The biggest difference for the 2D10 beyond the curve is that a roll again adds a third die (or possibly more dice). Yes, the foundation...

It's pretty close, but the numbers/difficulties are different. The current MasterDeck cards will work with either, but the original...

There were some non-trivial differences between Masterbook and TORG at least. As I mention above, using 2D10 instead of a D20 just as...

Huh. Thought it was Masterbook from my casual readthrough. It was pretty far along toward it at least (used the 2D10 instead of D20 at...

Player buy in is almost as important as in a horror game. At a minimum I would want all players to agree whether secret identities are...

Claremont being invoked makes me think you'll need to keep thorough and impeccable notes, as when you bring back that minor character...

Much the same. I've definitely had the reaction of "Yeah, guess I should have expected to be taken behind the shed for that one."

So, here's a thing many people don't seem to get: A bit of red text isn't a huge deal. Yes, a moderator told you (generic, not you...

No, that's fine. Trying to find a single point of instigation is often difficult - people kind of slide into it over the course of...

1) Telling us somebody is wrong. Being wrong is not against the rules. 2) Making snide remarks at moderators. 3) Replying to somebody...

Lethality was one of those things that saw a lot of the house rules. If you didn't play with henchmen (or large parties in general)...