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This seems like a pretty standard 4eism to me, and a general extension of the idea that monster and NPC stats exist entirely to govern...

Right, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of slow and to a lesser degree fear on my primal sorcerer. But it feels wrong that when...

I know a bunch of people who immerse easily and deeply into Starfinder’s style of science fantasy. And plenty who don’t. Immersion is a...

Though its understandable why games with the degree of both gamist focus and exception based design as is typical in the D&D-adjacent...

You get a few examples of potential actions you could succeed at at different tiers of proficiency, but no numbers. To be fair, I just...

None of that's in the skill write-ups anymore? If true, that is a little odd.

Two things: 1. As always noted, people on fora are not the populace as a whole. That doesn't mean that a poll here is automatically...

I never had much of an issue with tripping cubes, for the same reason I don't have issues with tripping foes in zero g. It's about...

Atomic Horror. I'm a lifetime fan of 50's SF movies, so its my favorite GURPS product.

I own all three, and some games made for the prior two. They're still pretty obscure and at least moderately old at this point.

A separate question of course. Part of it is what "level" means various not only from game to game but from class to class within a game.

I don't think I've played anything in a very long time that had that big a gap between mechanical support at both ends (though I...

A lot of that turns on two things: 1. How long do people play? 2. How fast are they willing to let levelling go? As an example, in...

Since we got a similar line of discussion over in 6E+ thread, I think nailing the right formula for the zero to hero is the trick. 5E...

Yeah, but there's nothing about a level based game that mandates that 1 is the default starting point. Its just such a tradition people...