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Normal folk. I'm multiply neurodivergent, normal people are outside my wheelhouse. Aliens are easier — outside star wars, star trek, and Traveller, "getting it wrong" is usually unnoticeable. But normal people? They're hard.

Rifts and Palladium Fantasy play fairly well, for a 1981 game design. d100 ≤ skill for non-combat, 1d20+(skill based mod) > 4 for combat. Note that I'm only going to talk about 1e Revised, as it's the one I have run. Have it both in PDF and dead tree. Anyway... Palladium Fantasy's core is...

My limit is about $80 for core rules on paper. Which, generally, I've found, is good for most everything coming out except D&D and Rolemaster. I paid under cover for Daggerheart dead tree, including shipping.

Yeah. gets odd anytime you mess with the chart, but if you guarantee that they get their slots, just not when, it's not too bad.

Usually, two different games. Cheat sheets to hand to keep the att/skill lists and difficulties straight. I used to run 3 a week. I can't anymore. My last "3 a week" - D&D at the store, and two different FFG star wars - one F&D campaign, playtesting the Gatekeeper campaign. One EotE, with a...

Which makes the game aspect complete fail - the even pace is for fairness. "So, Mrs. Lincoln, aside from that, how was the play?"

In fantasy hero, I had one PC who was speed 8 (when the magic was on). I later restricted PCs to Speed 6, period. The cards approach works fine if ∑speeds ≤ 52 (french deck, no jokers). Above that, you need a second deck, or to include jokers for more than «shuffle the deck». Or to go to the...

Another system problematic for dyslexics.

I was intending the pace of combat, not frequency. Frequency is a good bit high, tho', too. Champions suffers from steady pace of combat, too; it's phases chart by speed is NOT a solution to the even pacing of combat. A more realistic approach, keep Speed... but roll (speed)d12 and go on the...

No. It's a fixed pile. Body type produces a modifier which reduces each hit's damage. It's not quite linear, and a BT 2 is -0, BT 10 is -5... 4 boxes of light, 4 of serious, 4 of critical, 4 of Mortal 0, 4 of Mortal 1, 4 of Mortal 2, ... 4 of Mortal 6. Stun saves are 1d10 ≤ BT, -1 per full 4...

So have I. The way to get them to STFU is to sub in 2013's FNFF for a few combat heavy sessions...

There are saves in CP2020, but they're based upon distance down the HP track. Unlike CP 2013, which was a comparison of damage to body type, and resulting rolls. 2013 is more realistic, but also more a pain to run with anyone who plays D&D... as they whine about it being soooo lethal.

Your block digits are going to be hell on dyslexics... 1/2/16 are the same shape in different mirrorings. 4/8 are mirrored. 5/10/20 are mirrored 7/11 are mirrored 13/14 are mirrored. 6/9 are mirrored It's set up perfectly to make math hard for dyslexics. I'll note that real world cultures...

A knife fight is often a messy form of mutual assured destruction. I've only thrice had to defend versus a knife - my response the first time was to rip a post from a chickenwire fence and break his arm. Second time, same idiot, I had a firearm; he self-disarmed. Third time, he surrendered soon...

It's well presented in DH, but it's used in several others; I think Sentinel Comics does it a bit better, but they're very congruent presentations. Several older Fate flavors have environmental aspects. (Diaspora comes immediately to mind.)

= Sun Fallout Daggerheart: find McGuffin, empower then use.

My experience is that sci-fi and supers tend to be much more even. Classic Traveller assumed most NPCs would be rolled up by the same methods as PCs. A partial exception was the random encounters, but the stat ranges are comparable to 2-3 term characters. MegaTraveller, SpaceMaster, Phoenix...

The ordering of GM moves from soft to hard is a great tool for thinking about how to react to various player moves. I think the bottom few should be fear spends.

I found it more like `11 of 12, most of which (7-8) were showing "how the world reacts". An interesting idea - probably should have been an option... But I've not had any shortage of things to spend fear on.

The Tier 1 Solo "Construct", 5 balance points, was major damage to the 3 PCs of Tier 1, last sunday. It didn't need backup, especially with 2 spotlights in a row as a 1 fear cost. It could have gone either way... save for the fact that I rolled a number of 1's for damage.