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Sorry to hear that none of your DMs knew how to make it work. :/ 1. That perfectly cromulent house rule does fix this issue, though...

Foul rules are about what is an allowed or disallowed thing to do in the game. That is not the same thing. So in order to play...

I finished reading Williams' Hardwired. Third time reading it, and I think its influence was even greater than I originally thought...

No, I'm saying that I get that the rules don't cover all situations of the game to allow creativity, but the game rules do cover combat...

Two other observations: Sometimes I think that advocates for Shadowdark, or OSR/NuSR in general, exaggerate the avoidance of combat...

Which I'm fine with as a free-form exercise, but the game is also about combat. That's what the rules define.

But the point buy approach was so wildly different from anything that had really come before that I can't equate it to anything previous...

Oh...oh that was just delightful.

I think the categories are highly, highly blurry.

2e Skills and Powers IMO was a really different, fun early attempt at creating flexible characters and I think they needed to fail at...

I don't feel like combat is a failed state at all in Shadowdark, but it's definitely not the random blunder into a room and roll for...

But the viability of virtually all of those choices come down to whether you rolled up an exceptionally amazing character at first...

Combat is a fail state is like saying this game that I wrote rules for is 80% dedicated to the implementation of that fail state. What...

I disagree that OSR play is or should be organized in that way as a central tenet across the board. DCC certainly allows for more of it...

I love all these unwritten rules that people are supposed to magically absorb.