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beggars can’t be choosers, the TTRPG space is very different today from the 1e days As to 1e today (your is), unless you count the OSR...
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As a GM I want to focus on the game and not on dealing with either pointless minutae or dealing with flaws the designers have dumped on...
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The old lady who swallowed the fly would approve! The problem happened when the writer of the game rules decided to try making a...
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I know, if you'll note I'm not sure as you get farther downt he food chain that premise is particularly true. I certainly know two...
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That's pretty much where I am on it; all I really want usually is the sort of thing you have in 1 (as long as a die roller is possible...
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Further, the more rules that get baked into the VTT the harder it becomes to add in houserules and-or kitbash the rules system and-or...
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I mean there has to be some rest-state at the start of the campaign.
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I still say this assumes the rules book content needs to be baked into the VTT for the latter to be useful/useable, which is a kind of...
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It can pretty heavily change the actual numbers aimed at in the Kickstarter, though. Number of backers to make it work is not a trivial...
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I can see calling the ones on that list I'm familiar with rules-medium.
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This was, when drilling down, what most caused me to shift to RuneQuest many decades ago; even though it didn't have much more...
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For sure, it’s a more realistic game in many ways - charging that machine gun nest is truly heroic! Though when highly skilled...
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To complicate the discussion a little bit more (sorry), what GURPS ends up incentivizing you do can increase this 'slow to operate'...
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Only time I see KSes that would be having only 20 physical print runs signed up for are ones that aren't doing the Kickstarter with...
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I think it would be lame to enter an AI image in the Pumpkin Spice contest, but I was thinking of working on this Monster, but never go...
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