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I don't see what problem that solves. It just creates new problems. Never ever approach a question of what should happen here from the standpoint of the ruling being applied to NPCs. Always the question is what results if we apply this ruling to PCs. Is it fair to just tell the player...

Explicitly, that has been part of D&D's rules since the beginning. 3E attempted to quantify it somewhat with its "coup de grace" rules, and that's not necessarily a bad thing because it covers edge cases (you can coup de grace a whale, but its a bit harder to do with ordinary weapons) but the...

There has never been a realistic pen and paper system. What people mistake for realism is process simulation where you go through the mental steps that naturally arise when you imagine combat. But this isn't realism, just something that gives a semi-skeptical person plausible suspension of...

Traveller's inability to distinguish routine (which teaches only slowly) from high stress/high activity environments is one of the many things I hold against what could be a really great system. The way the CharBurner works should not necessarily reflect the most intense possible training...

I have always said that BRP/CoC's core advancement mechanic is the most elegant mechanic in all of table top RPGs. You advance for successfully using a skill, but the chance you advance is inversely proportional to you skill. While the model of advancing isn't "realistic" it does perfectly...

Well, that's certainly one reasonable example of revisionism. However, you can also question the history with more accurate history, or question the mythology by exaggerating aspects of the mythology to bring them into focus and ask questions like, "Why should a killer be made a mythical hero?"...

It's never happened to me, but I've lost two former players to tragedy after moves had separated us. They still hurt.

It's my opinion that no one can truly imagine anything from before about 150 years before they were born without devoting a lifetime of academic study. And that's probably for someone with some awareness of history. A good many people probably can't imagine anything more than about 25 years...

Protect Moff from farm machinery

Which is saying the same thing ultimately. And you make that clear even once you get far enough in your explanation. Yes, so in other words rather than buying a cookbook I'm buying a prepared meal, possibly even one that has been cooked for me and not just arriving in one of those...

Not to mention if you show up selling a trunk load of Imperial weaponry with the serial numbers intact, you better be making a heck of a Streetwise check if you want to avoid someone passing information to the Empire with a detailed description of who was selling looted Imperial weapons.

I get it, but I don't think it's my sense of wonder that is the issue. It's that in an RPG I am used to buying game systems and not games. The problem isn't that I'm out of imagination. The problem is that I want to play "my game" and not "your game". Somewhere a generational gap happened...

Definitely not possible to make everyone happy, but it probably isn't the same groups that are upset on the two occasions.

I think it is fair to say that 3e very much makes the assumption that the vast majority of opponents will not be leveled NPCs, because the game advice and guidelines begin to fall apart if you do try to tell a story where most of the foes are humans and not monsters. Making 3e work in a setting...

If you go back say 15 or 20 years ago, I understood why everyone was excited about and appreciated pretty much every title that would get nominated. But somewhere along the line I must have crossed some generational divide, so that when I see these nominees I really don't understand what is...

I feel old.

Unless you have a high system mastery player trying to break the game, 3.X runs very well from level one to about level 7 to 9 if you stick largely to core and very sparingly introduce any other CharGen options. If you want to run it at higher levels successfully a very large variety of...

It does and I don't think that is coincidental, but my point is that it manages to speak on the same theme without undermining in anyway what happens in the original trilogy but rather being a complement to it. Whereas the sequels reboot the setting and characters to the state that they were in...

Each of the three sequel movies were philosophically different and even at times internally inconsistent owing to the complete lack of planning or coherence in the writing team, but one of the themes developed by 'The Last Jedi' specifically and by the ending of 'Rise of Skywalker' was that...

Rogue One hits even harder after watching the two seasons of Andor, and I consider this a mark of good story telling in that you can increase the story without detracting from or harming the story around you. Compare with the sequels and their overtly destructive take on the characters of the...