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Ugly choice: The orc swings their axe to stop your zig. You can either take thevorc's weapon damage or jump back, putting the lever on the far side of the orc.

For much the same reason the idea that hovercraft have incredibly low hydrodynamic drag is irrelevant to cruise ship design. Freeform LARP/FKR has things to offer (and you can see some of them in Vincent Baker's games including Apocalypse World games as Meguey Baker is a freeform LARPer) but...

Because they want a good story not a contrived one. This is why we have principles like "begin, and end with the fiction" and "make a move that follows". To use an analogy if you set up interesting basic situations then play things sincere even with a couple of caricatures in there (but mostly...

No one has made this complaint about Daggerheart that I am aware of.

In other words prefabricated parts. So no actual play experience. Just comparing the instruction manual for a set of power tools with the tone of a "decorate your house with IKEA" guide. Of course the power tool guide is going to be more didactic. That isn't a move or a complete sentence. A...

This is just one approach. I've seen (particularly round the 4e edition wars) people arguing explicitly and passionately in favour of process simulation over the actual outcomes. It's what the entire "disassociated mechanics" argument is based on. For that matter when it comes to results most...

Have you ever played DW or any other PbtA game? Or even read both DW and 5e? Because DW (for all I don't rate it as a good PbtA game) is a toolbox game and D&D is an instruction manual - with the core rules being multiple 300 page books of instructions. You know what makes a toolbox a toolbox...

I think this is a complaint about not having Rule Zero to either patch broken rules or break working ones

The main complaint I've heard is the new grapple rules (because it's always the grapple rules) make PC grapplers non-viable

This depends a lot on the type of weapon (do we need to bring back weapon type vs armour type)? Take a hit on your breastplate from an ogre with a club, for example, and you won't suffer broken ribs thanks to the breastplate - but the force is still there and you still get slammed into the...

I do not understand how you got from FKR is simply irrelevant to game design sims because they are aggressively anti-rules to "You have planted yourself solidly in the kriegspiel lair what simulation is concerned,". There are a whole lot of D&D 3.X fans who would disagree with you and were...

That depends - armour is heaviest in the most vital larts And rapiers had edges as well as points. Even if you stab through a breast plate you aren't going to cut as much as if you were able to make a draw cut on the way out.

Which is why most systems use an armour-as-damage-resistance model. One where punching someone on the breast plate does adjusted no damage - but hitting them with a Warhammer will still hurt even through the DR. Armour doesn't make you better at dodging

I think that 95% of D&D adventurers have the same career: adventurer. And we're dealing with a small start up here not a mega corp; everyone pitches in. Now the class system in Apocalypse World makes sense; your class is your role within the world so you are The Gang Boss or The Cult Leader or...

We had Weird Psions in Tasha's. The Aberrant Mind nailed every single mechanical point of the psion except having 80 pages of pseudo-spells. It was just far too weird for people who wanted a nice boring psion because it had a touch of the mythos about it and dared to call itself a subclass...

I've recently had a long flight and read the release candidate offered on Matt Colville's Patreon. And something jumped out at me about the "each class has a special resource. Class: Censor Resource: Wrath Starting value: Victories Gain each turn: 2 Additional gain: 1/combat you damage your...

But that's not what we are getting. We already have a 5e Eberron book. We're instead getting a 112 page game update - and we had 15 pages of art-free mechanics. This isn't a full setting book.

I've noticed that every edition seems to come in three waves: The core. The bulk of the central ideas - the PHB The Extensions. Xanathar's/Power source Power/the Complete series. Things designed with the same philosophy as the core but there (often with reason) wasn't space for The Weirdness...

Random musing - the AI doesn't want soldiers. That's part of its point. I'm thinking it either recruits an existing group of hapless b or c list actors who think they've got a really good job offer (shades of Tropic Thunder) or it selects a squad of video gamers through sabre metric nonsense...