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So how come the description isn't accurate enough to rate this enemy on a scale of 1 to 20, with 1 being your neighbor that grunts when he picks up the newspaper, and 20 being maybe Batman? If the game is PbtA, do you really think someone's skill can't be guesstimated with that granularity?

You haven't refuted me, you just admitted you don't have the expertise to judge my claim.

If I had to pull a date out of my hat, I'd say by 2002 there were not many fantasy artists who were working entirely trad. By the late 1990s, Wacoms, and notably, used ones, were widely available to non-professional artists.

So this is the reality you are bringing to the game? I'm not allowed to know bonuses or numbers, and you also are going to refuse to tell me if someone seems like a good fighter? What exactly is my role in this game?

Maybe I missed it, but what is the source of your expertise on combat sports?

Yes.

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.