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That is combat in a nutshell, especially when firearms are involved. Speaking as one who has been there. There's a reason Audie Murphy described himself as 'a fugitive from the law of averages'.

Every company says that. But respect doesn't cover the overhead.

The definition of the goods is the kicker. Its looking like Diamond's agreements included boilerplate that is making stored goods as assets rather than consignment goods. As it stands, it appears that Chase/the court will use a portion of Diamonds staff for most effective liquidation of the...

I think 'realism' is a misnomer, but 'limited to basic physics' is too clumsy to use. Most of the systems tagged for realism allow a player to perform more individualized actions. One of the major reasons I abandoned D&D so long ago was that the combat is (to me) tedious. Roll to attack, roll...

Morrow Project 4e is a one-roll system, and is very tractical.

You can see it every Sunday morning about 4am when the blood-sugar drops....

The survey appears to assume that a TTRPG player is also a dice fanatic. Which means its will give a very slanted view. While some gamers are dice enthusiasts, it is not, IME, universal.

My definition of a more realistic system, in no particular order: Wounds degrade ability. Any hit could potentially put a victim down. There are more variables for weapons than just a damage dice. The player is more important than the stats, but stats do help. The system supports different...

It can in Hackmaster 5. And as in RL, it might not.

Hackmaster 5e (which has no connection to D&D). There's a contested die roll, and armor (only) reduces damage taken. Plus a vast amount of optional combat moves for those wanting more. Plus a 'count up' combat tracking system instead of combat rounds. Once everyone is familiar with it, it...

There will be several, perhaps even many, such motions filed. The odds of their success is not good.

Mine isn't exactly a player. Twenty-plus years ago my group played after-hours in the FLGS, and so I was not in control of the space and who was allowed in. Anyway, I had a hard and fast rule that a prospective player had to sit in for one full session before it was decided to let him join; if...

This thread has moved me to tailor an L5R campaign (using a different system) to my group. We won't get to it for a year or so, but there's no reason to miss out when you can adapt. WH 40k remans, but the lore is so dense I feel like the only way to run it is with the provided rules, and Dark...

True, but the key is just a dash. Not the steampunk nonsense of Deadlands, no magic, no spells, just bad people doing horrible things in a covert but organized fashion. No non-human creatures, no shamblers or Deep Ones. That keeps it from being 'weird'. They didn't have a term for serial...

This is the problem with fictional depictions of torture: they treat torture as an end unto itself. {Pedantic rant follows] The point of 'extreme interrogation practices' is to get the subject talking. That's it. From that point, it is simply interrogation, and anything a subject says is...

I've run several long campaigns in the Old West. The key is a dash of Lovecraft.

To be fair, he was commenting on my post, where I noted a shortage of pirate adventures, not setting material.

Non-weird WW2. There's only three I know of, one OOP, the other not very well supported, and the third is GURPs (Behind Enemy Lines, War Stories, GURPS WW2). Pirate campaigns. There's several pirate systems & settings, most awful, but there's very little effort invested in material to run...

If disney and warner brothers use Diamond, stopping this would cost them money. If they could stop it. This is how bankruptcies are done.