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If that was directed at my point, I think my point was about it "serving the interests of GMs with a simulationist bent. " I think I...

I considered the relatively objective parts of my statement was "These things are largely only visible to GMs" and "Only a subset--and...

I think, given the specifics I spelled out my statement was relatively objective; what I won't insist is that you consider the...

I've made my position on this clear; a game that serves the interests of a GM at the price of making extra overhead for the players...

Shortly after that post, my wife went up into the Kitten Vortex, where the kitten was on my desk, hiding behind my monitor. My wife...

Though they clearly learned some lessons in the Curseborn lore; its very notable in the way the narrating characters speak about the...

I don't understand. You define balance as "do both players sometimes succeed and sometimes fail." That's a pretty wild assertion, as...

if i had a choice i would rather try to find a method that expands the options provided by the balanced method rather than going into...

But it kind of does in terms of the "dump stat" question. If there's an attribute that most characters don't care about, it'll often be...

IDK, I think that any mechanic can be analyzed and assessed as to its effectiveness set next to playstyle A or play expectation B...

You can at least have a situation where the more complicated version is complicated for reasons that are pretty pointless at the player...

I think the point he's making is the results aren't always the same. Faster is only a guarantee of fastness, but not necessarily...

Right. Conan doesn't resort to combat as a last resort. Having fighter PCs begin at 1st level, rather than as Heroes, is already a...

The first is obviously true, but over time, a lot of that could still happen. In the case of the second, this is claimed far more than...

Given OD&D was around for three years and Greyhawk was in use for the two latter years of that, "sliver of time" is an interesting...