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Well it is appreciated. It also helps that we're not talking about WotC D&D (it angries up the blood)!

Ravenloft was always one of my favorite settings.

Yeah. Masterbook is a descendent of TORG and uses the same kind of mechanical constructs as TORG without those in-setting elements...

Ok, I didn't know that's how TORG works; like I said, never played it. If those are the laws of the setting, then IMO the mechanics are...

I'm pretty sure GURPS 3e had a specific mention of how getting around Cannot Speak/Mute via telepathy meant you didn't get any points...

Yup. That's the cause of a lot of problems people have in the hobby, one way or another.

I'll give you that those are entertaining and creative. But in actual play, I see multiple items with the potential to completely...

Funny this kind of just came up. I was a the local shop, looking over things, and another older guy strikes up a conversation, invites...

There are people in this world for whom their social world is currently in a state of contraction. The game might be their major...

Don't you like it when somebody undermines their own point, not by anything they say directly, but rather by just being an awful person?

I think this underestimates how some people deal with frustration. Over time, for some people, that's allit needs (and its easy to...

You have to look at other features of the "spaces available to them" to understand why they use them I've explained why I'm here when...

I'm not talking about excuses; I'm talking about reasons. Frustrated people behave badly; news at 11.

Because the point value of a disadvantage is to represent the problem it causes. If it doesn't cause as much problem because you've...

I'm not entirely sure its really narrative weight the way you usually use it; as I said, it a set of worlds some of which overtly work...