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And I don't think its okay that its completely disconnected by the abilities of the characters and instead based entirely around the...

Doesn't make me accept it just because the GM liked it. If they can't explain what purpose doing these things serve being different in...

How about "both"? (I should note I got a lot of early experience with BRP based games)>

That only changes things to the extent it changes the chance of succeeding at all (since failures don't do anything with the stunt die)...

AGE (sort of) does exactly this, granting a number of Stunt Points (SP) for rolling doubles. You get the number of SP showing on the...

The problem with those systems (and I should note they're my preferred) is that it can easily be where the decisions aren't difficult...

And sometimes they make it even harder by the way they manipulate the target numbers. Its easy enough to just have a table indicating...

As I noted, its easy enough to bake that into 3D6. You just don't make it a fixed number, but a ratio of the result needed.

Define what you mean by "argument"....

Though as came up when people talked about doing that with Mutants and Masterminds, you better be sure you're okay with what that will...

Nothing is "necessary", but when the desirability of something gets high enough, I need a pretty solid argument to buy doing it...

Yeah, but the trade-off is that it complicates implimentation of other elements of the system crossing over. The old OD&D system using...

I wonder to what degree the no-show issue is any worse than, say, people recruited from game store bulletin boards and the like? I.e...

There are versions of Hero sheets where I've seen that.

Well, I'm on record as saying I don't think this ever serves a particularly good purpose. In particular, of you're just substituting a...