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The idea is fine, but not very original - Ptolus got there first... It may well have some usable stuff that can be transported into an 'imperial' sort of homebrew setting, so I will probably get hold of a copy for mining purposes.

Yes, all good stuff. But I was referring to the most played rpgs and most rpgs in fact - not all - and certainly not things such as Traveller, Cthulhu etc. But randomisation and not knowing how challenges will turn out is a big part of those too - san checks when encountering a Mi Go victim's...

No - they only answer a question you have fabricated by design or mistake as passed off as my position on the issue. What I actually said was that all choice-based mechanics lead to a choice of failure or success - you make it seem as if it has to be ONE HUNDREN PERCENT SUCCESS or ONE HUNDRED...

So you don't agree with them, or me, or the vast numbers who play dice-based games because diceless choice games lack suspense, as the end is never really in doubt as the players choose, and of course every player who chooses can NEVER fail to know in advance what is going to happen. A players...

Do you have any evidence of it's relative popularity, or is it niche to the point other such games have been? I remember playing one rpg without dice (Amber) which was ok - if it was a little like a long, long LARP session with no action scenes, and another was a tabletop board game. The...

Yes, there isn't actually a real argument here. I think it is the general experience of rpg'ers that combat in rpgs is most frequently 'to the death'; that without the risk of death for PCs in such combats it would be a relatively dull affair, and on the flipside, that all kinds of other...

Actions, sure, but not many of of them are without risk to carry out in combat (casting spells has a range and so do your enemies ranged weapons and spells that casting the spell may have put you within). Nor does using a spell which is automatically successful (in most cases) mean you cannot...

It would appear (although I am not 100% clear on how) you have assumed too much about what I have said, and worked from that assumption rather than the actual statements. If that's down to a lack of clarity on my part, then that's on me, but having had a quick review of my responses, I honestly...

I never claimed otherwise. But death is the aimed-at end point of most combats. Most challenges in a game like D&D as you want to focus on that (I have previously been told by a respondent that it isn't the only game btw) are combat based, ergo death it is the most common risk of failure...

I never said it was. I also never said that death should occur regularly - encounters the PCs should win, or survive should be the norm for a campaign game. But that was not what the thread or my posts are about - it's 'chance of' vs 'no chance of' and the players understanding there is no...

The thread is not just about D&D though, and of course the trivialisation of a great deal of the threatening content by around 12th level onwards means many people don't play past this level. D&D still to this day has superhero levels of power creep. All of that other stuff is valid suspense...

A good decision - sorcerers are all about flavour, and the more distinct the alternative flavours, the better the menu.

Not sure he was so average in strength either. What brought you to that conclusion?

And all the more interesting for that. I would say 'Cue the argument about what class and level the Fellowship members were' but it seems someone beat me to it with the evergreen debate on Gandalf. :p

Wrong person quoted - so removed.

Conan won the UKGE 2018 Best Role-Playing Game category and is up for some Ennies 2018 shortly. A well deserved win, although there was some quality competition - so much good stuff at Games Expo this year. The games I ran went down a treat, and there was from what I saw quite a lot of...

More than fair I would say, it is briefly returning something they should have permanent access to but voluntarily gave up for pure role-play purposes for no other benefit. Perhaps you could go further and use it as a personal plot device where the heavens offer the PC their wings back, or some...

Mostly fair points, but I never characterised the risk of PC death as 'appreciable' (see bolded above) - I was clear that it should not be trivialised by the equivalent of script immunity, or drama in such scenes would be lost. That is of course something of a balancing act, and D&D has used TL...

Thanks.

I have always loved the idea of a magic-free ranger. This looks interesting.