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That's what I wondered. Huh. Odd. Only thing I've ever had trouble explaining to people about SW is the slightly odd way skills and...

Yeah, this. If it's the tactical stuff that's the issue, playing a different tactical heavy game won't help. It will just be all the...

I should note that PF2e has a maximum of about five steps you can play there, and some of them are hard to apply at will. That's...

I'll give them the first part of this is at least an arguable point. The second one is the same defense Advantage/Disadvantage is let...

Well, without referencing the system I'm not going to say there might not be a good reason to do it that way in the context of other...

This assumes that's what they think they're doing. The problem there can be that you've got enough of them that what you're actually...

I think you have a distinction that isn't held up in the wild. People who really want to game will put up with a lot of annoyance for...

My wife is officially retired now, which makes two of us. Great times ahead with our games and the pooch, who doesn't understand yet...

As I've noted before, while there's some variance here even in D&D, there's been traditionally some pretty active hostility among some...

The only thing that will kill this is if you have players who don't want to engage with the situation at all, and that's a problem in...

Meh. I retract the "most" part. I shouldn't have said "most" are primarily ego stroking and self-soothing. It's probably closer to 15%.

I think the problem is the latter is not actually true for a lot of people for various reasons. I've seen a number of people who flat...

Certainly. I'm just noting you can easily have one or more examples in a group of people who are working at cross-purposes because, in...

Depends on whether its the tactical element or other parts that have you burned out.

I'm rather bothered by the capped/cancel out combo (that's one of the things I dislike about Advantage/Disadvantage) but it may be that...