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I agree regarding the second part of this, but not the first.

I wouldn't call a LARP without rules (beyond safety) a game. Agree to disagree. Games aren't games to me without rules.

The ones completely lacking in rules I wouldn't call a game either.

I don't know. Without rules, you certainly still have role-playing, but I'm not convinced you have game. I don't think you actually have...

See my post. Without some rules and resolution as far as I'm concerned, its not a roleplaying game, its just freeform roleplaying that...

Though I have to note how "optional" they are is very much in the eye of the beholder.

D&D wasn't the only one though; there was a pretty fair bit of special-casing for no obvious reason for quite a long time.

Because "better" is subjective. I find streamlining to be what I think of as "modern." I don't (personally) like looking up tables. I...

That's essentially my view. Like I said, somehow the Illyrians managed to do it without everything going to hell.

The issue is that what they should have been doing is addressing the already extent augment genome they had. Instead, random people...

Ironically, the Federation had such bad luck early on with augments that they never really got it right; Khan and his kin other than...

Largely because of the ethical limits placed on such things. Get someone like Dr. Arik Soong, who's willing to do trial and error gene...

The lack of a safe path was not clear from the postings; usually in systems I've seen that have risk-to-gain options, they aren't...

That's it. I don't think its fun for most groups as a whole. Because you're presented with the dilemma of "Do I want ot find out if I...