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Though PF2e is one of the few D&D-adjacent I like, this is pretty much true at least at upper levels. With some of the classes its not really so true at 1-5. Its not as bad as D&D4e tended to be in that regard, but its visible.

I suspect the number of people who find starting from "nothing" isn't as large as you imply here. Though in matter of degree not specifics, the BRP system has had semi-random progression (in exactly when and how much it happened with a given skill) for a long time. Its far from a...

Though its understandable why games with the degree of both gamist focus and exception based design as is typical in the D&D-adjacent sphere are prone to book sprawl (as in, needing 2-4 books to properly express the game) I run into that a lot more there than games that can supply most or all of...

None of that's in the skill write-ups anymore? If true, that is a little odd.

Two things: 1. As always noted, people on fora are not the populace as a whole. That doesn't mean that a poll here is automatically invalid, but it can at least bring them into question. 2. "A lot of people" /= "a majority". The latter is by its nature more relevant for people trying to find...

Atomic Horror. I'm a lifetime fan of 50's SF movies, so its my favorite GURPS product.

I own all three, and some games made for the prior two. They're still pretty obscure and at least moderately old at this point.

A separate question of course. Part of it is what "level" means various not only from game to game but from class to class within a game.

I don't think I've played anything in a very long time that had that big a gap between mechanical support at both ends (though I acknowledge most games lean in a bit on extent of mechanical engagement in combat compared to others, something I complain about with some frequency. Fortunately, I...

A lot of that turns on two things: 1. How long do people play? 2. How fast are they willing to let levelling go? As an example, in theory 13th Age characters level every four sessions (in practice its slower than that in most cases after the first tier of play (L1-3) though they only go to...

Yeah, but there's nothing about a level based game that mandates that 1 is the default starting point. Its just such a tradition people have trouble getting past it both in the design, and in application in the field. In other sorts of approaches it doesn't have the baked-in history that every...

You see a little of this in 13th Age too, where some effects are more pronounced on targets that have dropped below a certain hit point threshold. Not that I haven't seen people get weird about that kind of mechanic, too.

Well, that's an element of deciding some things take actions that probably don't really need to. That's a case of a process that probably takes three more actions than it should (okay, two, if you're going to charge for movement you are; at worst that's an artifact of most games where stepping...

Different people are going to like different things. The 3-action economy felt like a good process once I got used to it, and I know others who felt the same; among other things it provides the tools for certain tactics and decisions that the more typical standard/move/quick action type...

I was thinking of typical heroic starts in non-superheroic Hero, but the principal is the same.

Well, there's always the case of psychological scar tissue, which has a lot of impacts in human relations in general, and certainly within this hobby, too. If you've developed a sore spot about something, the degree of offense needed regarding it to set you off can become quite low. At the...

Though that doesn't technically have to be true; you can theoretically have lower level boss fights where the boss just doesn't have that much support, so even though there's a relatively low chance of a PC getting a crit, the number of attacks coming in toward the boss compared to the ones...

I respect the attempt to do something different there, but the extreme dissonance between the mechanical focus at one end and the almost free-form approach at the other in Lancer would probably make me nuts.

I suspect their first example was not so much a failure to navigate as a decision to plow on through without care.

Yeah, under some circumstances its impossible to be critical of certain things without some people taking it personally. If you're critical of those things, the best you can do is say you did not intend insult, but if someone still insists on taking that personally, there's no functional way to...