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That's nice: being already involved in a discussion, when suddenly the owner of the thread changes and poof, it is gone forever.

I'm guessing that's the culmination of "Okay, maybe this wasn't the best idea after all." (Though now I'm wondering why I haven't got a...

Well, as some of this discussion has shown, how "meta" a currency or resource is not only varies from game to game, it varies in the eye...

That's why the term "apologist" is not usually used in a positive way.

Let me try to clarify. You have a lockpicker who tries to pick a lock. Is it obvious up-front that its difficult? In many cases...

No, I was assuming the lockpick attempt just conveyed how difficult it was; I'm not assuming the "difficulty" changed by what they rolled.

Well, honestly, with trivial and regular skills without intense time pressure, its bound to be.

It makes more sense with some skills than others. I tend to find it follows better with perception-type skills than most others.

And part of the problem is that most game systems only model success/failure, but not false positives or false negatives, and certainly...

Well, at least as far as single approach/skill use, it could well be that the lockpicker after he's tried goes, essentially "This is a...

Oddly enough, even the Hero System does this, though not quite in that flat a way; most tasks get a bonus for taking more time, and as...

With a flashback mechanism, that's always going to be an issue with people who are bothered by that sort of thing. Given where that's...

Oh, they're both straightforward. 1. Momentum as a group resource. I've just never seen a group I played with where that wouldn't...

I'm in the weird position that I find Storypath interesting, but have a couple parts of it I just don't entirely buy into. Mind, both...

Well, notice my feelings on the second part are less strong than the first. Like I said, it just makes my brain itch in a bad way, but...