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Or sometimes more than it really can.

It's plausible that tuition becoming so expensive that practically no one can afford it without scholarships, grants, or loans (or other...

Maybe that poster is assuming the same DCs are used? A DC 16 on a d20 is (approximately) equivalent to a DC 13 on 3d6. Both are only...

There's a reason that some D20 games that use a 20 as a crit (I think D&D 3e might have done that, but its been a long time) have a...

There are dice pool games that do that. The traditional Star Wars, WEG D6 style games did. You just have to want to play with the...

Eclipse Phase can. Because of the way its special and critical results are calculated, you can very much end up with an average roll...

I think that's true as a one-off. I think people can start to very much notice it if its repeated over time (say, as a modifier for a...

I understand that some people have a hard time wrapping their heads around the math of normal distributions, or they just don't like it...

I can totally understand that. One of the tools in GURPS is a set of general difficulty modifiers, so you can just think about how...

First, let me put my cards on the table as a person who really like triangle and bell-curve distributions. In my opinion, it’s not...

Any combat system that A) Doesn't have a lot of meaningful decision making and B) Doesn't supply a lot of different outcome results will...

The problem in this sentence is you're using "unwilling" when "unable" is just as likely to apply, and I don't think the loading on...

In my experience, the play of Marvel Heroic RP/Cortex+ Heroic involves a lot of plot points being spent and earned; many more than a...

It's not my rule, I'm just sharing how quickly the decision making tends to flow at my tables; without counting clarification questions!

Yeah, its essentially the same problem a lot of people have with not-easily replaced consumeables.