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This seems a pretty big overstatement in the tabletop field, given I can name a fair number where the lines between those are thoroughly...

Well, not counting the perverse incentives the progressive cost on things bought in play and the linear cost of them bought at character...

Well, honestly, you can do all of it with skills if you want to. Or at least skills and separately acquired talents and the like...

Well, you can have games that don't need anything thief-like, but barring the aforementioned games where its moot (if you've got a build...

Though I have to say "or technology" in that sentence comes across as a bit odd, as in a modern game the distinction between that and...

I have to note that most games that don't have them, do so because they're already subsumed in either the general system, or other...

Yes. There's some, well, political issues involving their owner that can be discussed too, but I thought it best to stay away from that.

Yeah, there's a lot of different failure states here. Usually that's self-adjusting after a while in a normal gaming group, but I do...

I'll make an arguement that character death can be less disruptive in many ways than playing a character sufficiently out of character...

Though this gets confusing in some games because some skills are used for task-based resolution, which can look a lot like damage...

That tends to be true outside of class systems as far as combat (though you have odd cases like the Hero System, but that's as much a...

In classless, skill based systems, some character concepts have large skill overlap (police detective, sleazy paparazzi photographer and...

I'm just saying that it seems odd to be bothered by some characters being driven by money for its own sake, when there are very...

Yep. There are reasons I never played Paladins in editions where Paladins could Fall. I don't mind having to walk a line-- but I object...

I generally agree with this, but I do have to note its possible for someone to find themselves in a situation where to play their...