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There can be matters of degree here. Hero has had a power system set up to be modified internally with Advantages and Limitations for a...

Personally, I think even generic rulesets need to have a focus. GURPS, though it does heroic, is more focused on realism and that's very...

I think this is to much more to do with 5e's market dominance than any factor of the game design.

There is an interesting question: if something is easily hackable (Shadowdark, say) does that mean it is a generic or universal system...

We simply disagree about the severity, then. A discussion that essentially negates the original question seems a pretty hard turn to...

I'd argue that's more a tool-of-convenience issue; any halfway coherent system can be repurposed if you want to, but it very much can...

Well, there are a couple of matters at hand here. 1. How "generic" 5e is as a system is very, very much in the eye of the beholder. As...

The problem with that is while its a functional way to represent running out of ammo in isolation, its completely disconnected from...

I think more broadly, its "style". Its going to impact how the game session would come across even if narrated to others, because its...

Sure, I'm just saying that's pretty much orthogonal to whether the thread stays on topic.

Well, that can happen while staying entirely within the premise of a thread, though.

Noted. And I'm not always hesitant to say that I don't agree with the premise so I don't agree with the conclusion in a discussion...

I think arguing almost any generic system has "style" elements baked in is actually a better argument than suggesting it can't cover the...

Whether true or not, it doesn't change the fact its still denying premise for the question in the first place.

I expressed myself poorly. I think there's more than one game that does that that isn't heavily stylized. My suggestion was that the...