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For me it really depends on the system. Some of them it matters little, others can be unplayable with rolled stats. I'll roll in DCC and...

I notice most of the experienced producers don't; even if they haven't had problems themselves, I think they've noticed the problem with...

I would agree that Point Buy is not as balanced as Standard Array, but I will say that I prefer Point Buy for the customization it...

I suspect we are deceiving ourselves if we think anything we love is too obscure for those working in the film industry. Fiction is...

Which is why I said "Some of those."

Poul Anderson’s Polsotechnic League stories aren’t particularly nuanced space adventures.

Which was kind of the point I was alluding to; it produces a lot more failure states than a digital one, and thus more likely to leave...

GURPS used 1 yard / 1 meter hexes right from the start, as I think its precursors The Fantasy Trip, Melee and Wizard did. It always felt...

I get that, but its still notable that the failures disproportionately include physical products, especially non-book items.

Some of those I can get requiring more effort to get right--Le Guin requires considerable nuance for example--but Norton's output was...

There must be fifty ways to do so.

A lot of games I played in my heyday used 1 meter hexes. Heck, even the current incarnation of the Hero System does that as I recall.

A lot of choke-pointing, but has the virtue that since it isn't linear, the locals can know how to circle around those (and potentially...

I loved hte beastmaster books as a teen, the movie not so much And good question why no Norton made it to the screen, at least afaik.

Yep. This is why balance is aspirational - unless you tightly constrain the play space, there's no real way to know for sure your...