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I've done plenty of combat sports and boffer stuff, and it takes about 0.3 seconds to figure out if your opponent's footwork is any good.

So who decides how much ignorance?

This, but actually, the opposite of this. This is a sai. This is a jitte. The sai is cylindrical or octagonal dagger. It is not a "parrying baton." The jitte is a parrying baton. There is some convergence in design between the two in some examples, but the sai is generally used to stab, and the...

A sai is pretty much identical to a main-gauche; a hilted weapon with two side-prongs and a stabbing tip. If a tonfa is a "dagger" then so is a broomstick. But that's not what I'm saying. A sai is a weapon that has a sharp point you stab into someone's body. It has a hilt. It has a point. It...

An adventure should be "easy." Let's say there are five main encounters, and you have a 95% chance of winning each one. That's a 77% chance of winning ALL of them, or to put it another way, nearly a 1 in 4 chance of a party wipe. Actually sweating danger should be comparatively rare. Individual...

Let's say you don't have the numbers. But does your character have a general sense of something's capability? Is ignorance immersion?

Wrong. You cannot withhold rules mechanics from being licensed under the ORC. You can use an explicit declaration to include something that would normally be reserved material, or that maybe is in a bit of a fuzzy zone. "Giving nothing back" is a strange way of describing releasing a new set...

Okay, here's one. The origin of the sai is a bit obscure, but it is probably descended from an Indian Buddhist trident or trident-sword. A lot of sources will go on and on about how it was a baton used by police in Japan, but that is probably a bit of confusion. While it was adopted by police...

Gnomes can definitely be evil, but the whole evil gnome thing I think is a little played out, lately.

They seem to be from a pocket universe that is almost entirely but not quite unlike Dark Sun.

They didn't actually use the OGL then, either. They acquired the use of those two monsters under a private license, then released them under the OGL. That always seemed petty to me.

The classical sai is a dagger. The blunt sai is mainly a modern martial arts invention, patterned after the similar but single-pronged jutte.

The original description of Thor's hammer was that it had an unusually short handle. I've tended to assume that's a Norse dick joke.

The first time they meet him, they mistake him for an ally, and he mistakes them for dupes.

The TSR Buck Rogers line also had licensed Gold Box computer games, a strategic board game, and tie-in novels. So my guess is that TSR does not own that version of the property entirely.

Immersion is very valuable to me. However, I think the players should be "in on" the rules; there is nothing more jarring to the play experience than a mismatch in expectations, because the GM isn't showing the players what they can do in the game.

Probably the coolest and most star-like thing, I think, would be to make it a punching dagger with one long blade, and a smaller blade a each side.

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