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Sounds like Torchbearer works alot like MouseGuard. In which case the tension comes from knowing the stakes beforehand, and the...

Defeat in combat doesn't have to mean death. I know that in D&D that's the default; but it's possible to narrate being dropped to zero...

Nope, didn't say meaning or consequences. I said tension specifically. Combat without tension is boring for me, and I feel no tension in...

The example I gave wasn't fudging dice: rather, making choices like "If the PC has AC 20, then give the NPC a +15 attack bonus" or "If...

I don't. That's the point. If my PC is immortal, why bother wasting the time playing out a combat encounter. Just tell me about how my...

Usually pretty early on, in conjunction with what PC ancestries are available. Who's living in the world will shape what it looks like...

7th Sea? Kinda... Maybe...

I'm usually in the "Schroedinger's Monster" category for most monsters. Unless it actually appears in a session, it's existence is...

Yeah...this is why I always have a good conversation with the GM of a game about these kinds of things before agreeing to join a...

Whether or not it is cheating would depend on the agreed rules. But the GM making the risks, the stakes, and the consequences be...

It always surprises me how people can think that this isn't cheating. "Oh, sure, there are numbers and rules, I just break them whenever...

I recently read something online that said that a D&D GM is not really bound by any rules: for instance, they're not bound in any...

I think that hit points (and by this I mean escalating hit points, not static ones like in BRP) are like a good soup or stew: they are...

I like to conceptualize cure light wounds as curing wounds to both body and soul. The spell both heals bruises with divine magic and...

Morphine and a Red Bull!