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Well, I'm not complaining about that - but if you start a thread about the goods and the bads of D&D dominance, it is kind of logical that the a lot of people posting about the bads are the ones coming over from other parts of the forums. Otherwise, the thread would have to be called: "Let's...

It's not about not wanting to discuss D&D ... but, for example, a lot of online discussions of general RPG topics (like, recently, this one), end up as discussions about that one edition of D&D vs. another, and if you don't play D&D, much less dived into the minutiae, you'll be unable to take...

Well, maybe the GM would enjoy something else more ... (BTW, it seems pretty typical that the "GM type" has lots of games they would like to unleash on their group, but most in the group just want to keep playing their dwarf druid.) Sometimes, everyone can get on the same page, sometimes they...

Yes, definitely! The one thing I lament is a lot of people thinking that RPGs=D&D.

I agree with pretty much all of this. Personally, I'd still be happier with a maybe smaller RPG scene and less D&D dominance, because it would be easier for me there to communicate about my hobby. I'm not saying that D&D should step down/make room, or that it should be designed differently - I...

Which I read as "what you want from RPGs is marginal, please leave me alone with it, no one but you and your two friends are interested in that." I'm not begrudging anyone their D&D style fun. There's lots of aspects to it that I like (though I prefer to find them in Troika! and DCC, which do a...

I come from a country where, for most of the time, D&D played second or third fiddle to The Dark Eye and Call of Cthulhu (and probably also, at times, to Shadowrun). As far as I know, Fifth Edition has finally become number one here, but that's a more recent development. Therefore it's weird...

Thanks for clarifying! Out of curiosity, is there a specific reason for using 2d12 - I get liking the d12, but why 2? Is there some specific relevance of the scale of 2-24? I mean, I can get behind The One Ring, which uses a d12 that is actually a d0-10 (with two times 10) plus several d6, so...

Doesn't depend that on the system? I mean, sure, these are odds for "adventure" situations, but I still like to have a fixed scale on which to judge them.

Is the 12° system the same as in Shaow, Sword & Spell? I kind of tried to wrap my head around that, but TBH, bounced of the really weird scale (I think I could have dealt with 2d10 or 1d12, but 2d12 feels strange - I guess it's not inherently stranger than 2d6, but it produces numbers that just...

That's actually something that I don't like that much ... the idea of "breaking the scale" confuses me about what the numbers actually mean. With roll-under-systems it's clear that a 15 out of 20 means, well, 15 out of 20 - which actually retains one element of "more is better", because 15 out...

Well, if it's so terribly important to you to know and tell everyone how "normal" people relate to numbers, knock yourself out. Personally, I'm wary of these sweeping "that's just how human beings are wired" statements, but since this is a pretty harmless topic, I guess I might just as well drop it.

Exactly. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all just agree that roll-under and roll-over are a matter of preference and allow for the same functionality, and if there are more people who prefer roll-over, it's probably because there are a lot more people who have started gaming with D&D and its...

There are actually tons of traditional d100 roll under games that love their modifiers ... and you can add (subtract) them after the fact just as well as in a roll-high system ... as for the entire roll taking on another meaning, well it's the same in a roll-high-system if you apply a modifier...

Why would it? It depends on whether you apply the modifier to the characteristic score or the difficulty. If you default difficulty in a roll-under system is zero (meaning you have to roll under your unmodified score), difficulty modifiers that apply to your score would be negative if...

Yes, that's what I'm getting at ... I don't feel like I have learned on some "fundamental" level that "high is good" or "low is good"; it's a 100% context dependent. A high body temperature (fevre) is bad, a high star rating on drivethru RPG is good, a high number on a d20 is bad, a high number...

Which is actually what I tend to prefer. "Usually, I have a success chance of 70% at these kinds of tasks", with "usually" usually meaning under pressure, immediately tells me a lot more about my character than "I think I'm kind of good at this, but really, it depends on the situation." Of...

Actually, in Germany, school grades go from 1 to 6, with one being best and six being worst. Personally, my first (and for quite some time only) RPG was d20 roll under, followed by d100 roll under systems, and to me, until this day it feels weird that a 1 on a d20 should be a bad thing and a 20...

I totally get it with regards to D&D ... it's just that these days, people seem to be arguing all of the time of something can or should be considered a new edition or not, whether something is falsely advertised as either a new edition or a remaster. It's not just D&D. And with most other RPGs...

You're probably right ... I just find it confusing, because to me, a new edition simply was ... well, a new edition with whatever big a small changes the publisher deemed necessary (like Call of Cthulhu going through six editions with virtually no rules changes at all); I really can't say why...