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Warning, this might be a little sensitive for followers of Buddhism. No disrespect is intended, and I only wish to educate others that Buddhism is a large system of beliefs with many various branches and sects with their own thoughts about what one does to become enlightened and what to after...

What is dismaying to me, is that because so many people come to roleplaying through D&D, a lot of gamers seem to feel that "this is how health and combat is supposed to work for RPGs". Since so many gamers seem loathe or unwilling to learn new non-d20 game systems, it exacerbates this notion. I...

Hit Points are one reason I never got into D&D that much. It's too much of an inconsistent abstraction for my tastes. If hit points represent dodging, blocking, superior tactical experience, luck or divine favor (as 1st edition rules do explicitly state), it is hard to explain how those...

Except that the Traveller rules themselves didn't enforce any notion of this style of play. There was a section on employees and hirelings in the 1977 edition of Traveller, but it specifically calls them out as NPCs. If different groups of players decided to let them be controlled as players...

Since Living Steel by Leading Edge Games also came out in 1987, I would argue that it concurrently had the idea of Troupe style play. In Living Steel, you had two kinds of characters you could play; Ringers or Alpha Team members. The "Ringers" who were the military characters who came out of...

This article motivated me to write my first ever post on this site, and indeed my first post on an RPG site in probably around 18 years. I have been a lurker in the RPG scene for close to 30 years, not having played a session since the early 90s. The last games I played were Twilight 2000...