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Morality isn't generally something we think of as a matter of personal preference. If you believe something is immoral, then you believe people doing that thing are behaving immorally and should change their behaviour -- you are casting judgement. If you present something as just a matter of...

If I was going to run online for some reason, all I would be after is a whiteboard and video + voice.

Yes, but I believe the point @rolemaster4evah is making that "overuse of d12s" and "being disrespectful to the tarot" are very specific concerns for an article that opens by telling us, "here are the common pitfalls".

As I recall, current vs maximum hit points is an ancient debate (which I'm not planning to weigh in on).

I have certainly never come across rules that ruin a game and which have been retained in that game while I continue to play. If a GM runs a game that isn't fun, I'd expect to have a conversation and make changes. It's not that hard to dial something back if it's not working. And if a GM is...

I think there are two different scenarios: If someone is seriously attempting to create a game they expect to distribute and have people outside their group play, then they are unlikely to release a satisfactory product without a reasonable amount of actual experience across the number of...

When we're talking about a leisure activity, if someone says that they prefer the 1e matrices to ascending AC as a subjective preference, I see no basis for demanding an explanation, or claiming that the preference is invalid without it. That would feel like expecting someone to provide an...

Yeah, I don't see much value in looking for things to call "objective" improvements. As you say, Adv/Dis is simplification at the cost of detail; how you feel about it depends on how much you value each of those things in the particular contexts where they apply. I would be tempted to say that...

I have already commented in this thread that the most modern version of Rolemaster is my least favourite. No one's claiming they won't be revised or changed. We're disputing the notion that change is always (or even often) an objective improvement. In my experience, beyond fixing typos and the...

Sure, no one said it can't be done. But @FrozenNorth did claim that any reasonable person would agree it's objectively unwieldy, and that is why I provided an alternative perspective.

I haven't looked all that closely at RMU; from what I have seen, I felt it was simplifying where I wanted detail and adding detail where I didn't need it, but I suspect the core is still RM enough that my overall impression would probably be positive if I didn't already have the RM that I need...

For what it's worth, I allow 33 classes in my typical ACKS/BX (race-as-class) games. My upcoming Rolemaster game has 39 available professions (before accounting for all the priest, cleric and elementalist sub-classes available), which is four to six less than the last RM game I ran (curated due...

This is fair. Most versions of RM involve front-loading a lot of work into character gen.

There's every chance your decision about whether or not you like it won't be formed by the actual rules themselves, but how onerous you find it to have to reference the charts and tables in play.

Funnily enough, in addition to being able to search the pdf, I can also provide a complete combat cheat sheet I used extensively in play, while playing the game. Interestingly, it's full of modifiers. But what would I know? If one person claims modifiers are rare, clearly all my actual evidence...

According to GURPS 4e Campaigns, modifiers are applied often. No idea where the idea comes from that this isn't the case. It then goes onto discuss Task Difficulty (ranging from +10 for Automatic to -10 for Impossible) and Equipment Modifiers (quality modifiers, missing equipment modifiers) as...

I expect a new player joining my group will learn how my group functions, not expect us to change to emulate some pre-conceived idea about how gaming works, that was acquired watching actual plays. I have recently added a new player to the group, whose pre-existing understanding did, indeed...