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I'm going to toss a grenade into this small pool. I think how you run whatever system you pick has far more to do with 'success' that any notion about which system you settled on.

Opposed d20 rolls aren't even mentioned on the page you quoted. Nor does the description of the core d20 mechanic state or even imply it is the only thing you need to play D&D. They mention attack rolls of course, but that's a reference to the actual combat rules, not something different. I'm...

That's completely true. But it also isn't a 'core' mechanic that somehow defines D&D play at a basic level. To be clear, and I'm really not tryin to misrepresent your position, you argument is essentially the following? Am I missing something key?

I didn't cherry pick anything. I actually disagree with you. This is part and parcel of posting a public forum. I haven't been rude, I simply disagree, completely and I'll admit, somewhat vehemently. No one's getting attacked and I don't think is super useful to try and make the discussion personal.

So I went further back reread, just to be fair. I haven't changed my mind. The statement above is manifestly incorrect. Disagreeing with your hot take isn't 'not engaging' or 'not understanding'. You are simply incorrect.

I suspect it's more that you made a very large claim and haven't actually demonstrated that it's even remotely true. Do feel free to try again though. Aren't we being polite here, lovely.

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Sure, you can run a combat in a game of D&D without using the combat rules, but then you aren't, you know, using the rules. I suppose you're technically correct, but only in a somewhat trivial kind of way IMO. Your contention that the combat mechanics are somehow not rules is nonsensical. It's...

This isn't a mechanic in D&D that is used to resolve combat. It sounds like you're describing an opposed roll, but that doesn't appear on page 7 of PHB. Combat is very much it's own mechanical thing in D&D. The fact that it uses a d20 doesn't make it not manifestly different from, say, skill rolls.

TMNT was never actually a good game. Nostalgia has clouded people's minds.

Is this a recurring dream of yours? Asking for a friend...

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Stab him in the forehead til he's calmer, Stab him in the forehead til he's calmer, Stab him in the forehead til he's calmer, With a pointy dagger.

Honestly, the overall lack of gear slots in Blades makes this seem a little bit like a tempest in a teacup. Plus, in no case are you choosing from a list anything like you might see on even a 1st level D&D character sheet either. Unless you're running heavy and risking a lot of notice while you...

The characters in Blades have pretty identifiable specialties and their gear tends to line up with that specialty. Faced with an obstacle that leans directly into that specialty there usually won't even be a conversation - using gear is always better than stacking stress. If I were playing the...

Well, lets start by deep-sixing the quoted term, shall we, or at least setting it aside? I use the term diegetic a lot, but adiegetic only in this thread since it was already in use. I'll also point out that I didn't use either of your specific examples. That said my contention was that there...

This is pretty common. One of two things is likely to be true. It's possible that Blades simply won't click for you and your table. It's also possible that this is simply an artifact of a new system. Your account squares with my recollections of my first couple of Blades sessions so it's quite...

I think its trivially obvious that die rolls (by themselves) are adiegetic (or whatever term we want to use). However, mechanics and rules in TTRPGs are not simply die rolls by themselves and I'm pretty sure we're discussing those mechanics, not die rolls. If we take as a standard base for...

I've chatted with him briefly a couple times, he's a fine fellow.

See, I thought I remembered one, but I own multiple editions of the PDF and didn't have the energy to go searching. Nice catch.