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There's a fun little kind of micro-bounding on the DC side, actually, that I appreciate. The adventurer tier Hard task, let's say...

I wanted to enlarge a bit on what I mean above. The two typical 3D6 systems I'm familiar are GURPS and Hero. In principal you have a...

I caught that, but I still maintain its going to be visible at some point more than others because *small discrepencies in roll" have...

I think you're making a mistake thinking its going to only be a 15% there. As I noted, a 15% lands very differently in the point in the...

Its not particularly bounded, but there's not really much in the way of modifiers, either; as @bsss above says, the GM sets one of a...

At which point I think people would have to be less sensitive to low rolls (since I'm assuming they can still see the totals) than any...

See my Metal School thread, linked in my sig. it was inspired by encountering younger metalheads who didn’t know who Black Sabbath...

I'd argue its obvious in more games than not once you get away from the D20 and D100 systems. Unless the dominance of the D&D sphere...

As I noted, bonuses on 3D6 systems are not symmetrical throughout the range, and as such can end up playing a great degree of...

I didn't realise that you were talking only about 5e D&D. Your post (and the thread more generally) didn't make that clear.

Yeah, they probably aren't. I was more responding to the comment about rounds being tied to a 3 second action framework being an...

Well, I'm fortunate that I can't really run a combat in any system that cares at all about position without a map, so I never tried to...

So was I. I just couldn't remember the various things that would give me boons or apply banes to opponents. We did a whole campaign...

Unfortunately, as I said, I just produced a separate cheatsheet. (I'd also suggest this can be a particular problem if you're using the...

Just a couple of short things: 1. While 13A movement is abstract, its positioning is not. It doesn't do a grid, but neither do...