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Then any discussion of rules is largely futile because people aren't even assuming the same rules.

In which case, you might as well be comparing D&D, Runequest, Fantasy Hero and Dungeon World for all the cross-utility you're liable to find. If you're under the impression only D&D GMs make house rules, or that only it has had several editions, let me disabuse you.

I maintain it still does if it modifies the rule area being talked about it enough. If the response to a discussion of Rules Topic A is to say you've houseruled it in a way to make the problem area not a problem (which may involve houseruling in other areas) that may be vaguely useful in a "how...

Eh. I suspect for most people these days, Discords are more accessible than fora.

This is one of the things that can make reading old SF novels (as in, ones written in the 50's and 60's) difficult; the growth in information gathering and communications technology makes some serious dissonance in dealing with their plots sometimes..

I kind of agree with Reynard. King should know better than to expect a superhero movie to show realistic impact of violence. Its very much a genre which bends over backwards usually not to do that (ignoring deconstructions and the odd case of Invincible). On the other hand I kind of agree...

Besides progressive costs, there's always having caps (which can occasionally raise if you want). Its a common solution for point build games that want to keep costs linear for simplicity. As long as you don't set the gaps between the cap and what you can practically start at without otherwise...

No, its to suggest its irrelevant, because there's no common ground that can be derived that way. You might as well be talking about a different game.

You could make it work, but it'd probably be quirky.

There's always been an argument for offset squares, but I think its always been just a little too odd for any game system to embrace, and these days good luck getting a VTT to work with it properly.

I do too, but they're not wrong. Most games don't even bother with forum activity any more. Its Discords and maybe a reddit.

Which shouldn't be a thing, IMO. Well, local government moving targets, especially on anything that takes a while are a whole different problem.

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...