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Its actually a bad example for what we're talking about though, because the mechanical oddities in TORG are simulations in the sense...

Pendragon might be a case - it really enforced certain themes of honour and chivalry romance through the rules.

This isn’t a battle that needs a victory. Call it 5.5, and I’m going to know what you are referring to. If I call it 5e24, I’m pretty...

Yeah, but I think the point is, none of that theoretical availability matters if other games or styles have elbowed out the ones you...

All resources are finite. Too many boats in an area can make it worse for everyone. It’s hard to do commercial fishing where people...

One perception of the blossoming of a wide variety of options is it’s a de-emphasis on what YOU like. Even in major cities, it may be...

Its not that big a reach to in a hobby with a heavy networking orientation to conclude that things you may not like may end up...

Unfortunately, almost all the ones I used that way back in the day (and thus have stuck throroughly in my head) were Hero System based...

I dunno. I played an Aasimar in the last PF2e game I was in, and I didn't find him dull, nor did the other players. He was a little on...

No she isn't. She's from New Jersey. She's an American. Her family is from Pakistan. She was created by a Muslim-American and a...

I just think there are some pretty old games--and you know in my case, I'm meaning more than a decade or two--where the mechanics are...

Are you excluding spellcasters with the latter part of that? Because if not, I don't think I agree (and I'm perfectly willing to say...

Its a viable position, but the alternative for many people is simply not being able to keep track of physical relationship, distance...

I do get the idea of not wanting to be forced into a meta mindset more then necessary (and in the context of GURPS, that's why I really...

Luck is once per hour of game play as the base level of usage, which is not a diegetic mechanic. There are optional rules for ‘buying...