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I agree with you that there are other perspectives to be sure. For me, though, if death is off the table the other consequences are...

No, not all time skips are railroading. In fact, the overwhelming majority of them are not. How many games have you been in where...

Games that includes lethal combat, at least in my experience, don't often go to the lengths of constantly reminding players about how...

For me, who's life has been that way for the better part of two decades, those stories are reminders of why I need to value my survival...

Well that would be the essence of the "life goes on" story. The PC has lost everything they care about, what new things can they find to...

In a genre where people regularly jump onto dragons and stab them with daggers, you think the heroic swashbuckler will be afraid to do...

I came here to recommend Pendragon/Paladin as well. I think these systems would be fantastic for a GoT game. The dynastic nature of the...

I recently rewatched all of the HBO series and went on to rread the 1st 3 novels. While doing both it came to mind often if the setting...

I'm in the "it depends" category. If HP are comparable to an average weapon's damage (HP could be reduced to zero with one or two...

I think it's game-dependent. It kind of follows the "What are hit points?" questions, and whether there are multiple types of hp tracks...

It's kind of amusing that this argument that games need character death to be fun is in the D&D group, famously a system where death is...

I do not understand.

To be fair, this might tell more about the quality of construction rather than the power of the weapon. This was an American house...

You can use rapier to get in close and hit dragon in the pinky toe. It would be like he stepped on the lego or d4. Very painful and very...

I mean, it's pretty on brand for the permanent Renaissance-era trappings of the Forgotten Realms it feels pretty well at home. Maybe...