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On the other hand, when you have things like people that talk about the hobby like a class-and-level approach is the only one that...

It's hard to say. Sometimes 'too soon' is simply not relevant, or maybe the point. Some half-dozen years ago researchers uncovered a...

Well, other than librarians being generically hostile to destroying libraries, part of the issue there is we're pretty sure there's...

“Has he lost his mind? Can he see, or is he blind? Can he walk at all? Or if he moves, will he fall?” ~ Black Sabbath, “Iron Man”

There are definitely games designed for and/or suited for a different focus, but I rarely have any interest in those games, and sim is...

I haven't seen an edition of CoC in many years, but it probably is suffering here from the fact BRP predates the idea of talents and the...

In games that have both skills and some version of advantages/perks/edges, both combat, magic, and "other" often use a mix of the two...

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...