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Eh, I'd be hypocritical to be on someone for getting some numbers, even with a game they used often, off. But my general point was in most modern period games, the situations where a melee weapon is better than a ranged weapon in any way that benefits swapping back and forth is pretty rare...

That's just as easy to do with degree counters.

As I said, its no harder to find magical ways to get rid of them entirely. That's a poor reason far as I'm concerned. I've seen plenty of games that do matters-of-degree and somehow we managed to not have people work the edges. In other words, lazy design. Notice I mentioned chainmail, not...

Well, as you note Jennifer is a comic character, adjacent to superhero comics, and the sexualization there has been at least for a long time even more severe than in RPG artwork, so no big surprise.

If you're going to talk about them as systems, yes. Far as that goes, if you're going to talk about how they were generally played, yes. If all you're talking about is how your own group and people who shared your dynamic did it, then knock yourself out. During my OD&D days we did all kinds...

Sure. But when talking about a game, at some point its nice to actually be talking about the same game, and the only common ground there is what's written in the book. Otherwise at some point you have the Game of Theseus.

That's the point. At that point comparing two games is meaningless and critiquing a game is meaningless, because houserules become the all-purpose trump card in discussion.

Its still meaningless when talking about a given game. You can houserule anything into any game whatsoever, but when talking about what "Game X does" that's meaningless. Its like all the people who talked about how AD&D played when it turns out almost none of the played the game as was...

I should have made it clear I was only talking about CoC. I own but have never played NBAs, so I wouldn't have felt competent to talk about its specific milieu. In CoC the point is, there's no special reason to have a melee weapon, especially since it means the character has to have two...

One of the reasons I'm glad I've never been fond of realtime games.

I just feel no need to give my neighbors quasilegal abilities to harass me because they don't agree with aesthetics or function. If they have a problem, talk to the city or county about it.

Wasn't any harder to just define magic armor that didn't impair mages. Absolutes are no more difficult to overcome with custom items than penalties.

That's pretty meaningless though; you can houserule any game in any fashion, but that doesn't say anything about what the game actually supports.

There might have been some specific exception for elves in OD&D. I can't speak of AD&D.

And I think that's bad design generally. You'd think so, but there's no exception made there. And I don't think either of those should be true. Penalties yes; absolute negation no. That's kneejerk simple in the second case and ridiculous in the first (a thief can't wear a chain shirt and...

Oh, there were all kinds of variations, but in general, there was always this sense that "mages shouldn't wear armor" (which as is typical with D&D, especially the earlier editions, showed a very selective reading of the source works mixed with some pretty specific game balance assumptions) and...

That's a lot more reasonable than the all-or-nothing thing that's usually been done. I think AGE applies an additional mana point cost for armor (and any untrained user has a defense penalty, since armor in that game reduces damage rather than modifying to-hit).

The problem with them in a lot of places is the degree to which the law restrains them is, shall we say, varied. Which means they're a strong vector for petty power plays by those in charge.

Of course you tend to get some weirdness in buildings with right angle corridors with hexes.

Its nothing you want to occur, but if you don't have your back to a wall or ally, its still something you have to account for happening, and the question of whether the squares turn that maximum into 4x or 8x is not trivial, and is still a change from the 6x with hexes. And of course what...