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Probably true, but also much harder to actually identify; at best you can look at some statistics on VTT platforms and maybe convention games, but that's going to tell a biased story.

This is why I've claimed that a lot, maybe most, incarnations of D&D are actually more complex than the Hero System once you get away from the most simple fighter types. There's actually vastly less special casing in the later, and a lot of it only comes up rarely or with specialty characters...

Are you sure that's true with the smallfry? I've seen a couple people make a second try at it if they didn't make goal the first time, but no KS I've seen that failed to make its bones just went ahead anyway.

Pulling out degenerate cases is a popular habit when attempting to attack some other approach or position, and its not surprising coming from that poster.

If you consider them kind of a subsystem as a set, I can see that. Other than grappling (which often turns into its own at least moderately complex thing) I'm not sure most of the ones I know are super-detailed, but then, I may have a different standard to what that is than some people.

The big problem is that they were often, maybe usually, vastly out of power sync with the OD&D material they were theoretically designed to work with. They weren't even necessarily in sync with the system variations Hargrave used in his home games (there was a rather dry note that went around...

What category do you put universal tactical options (i.e. ones that don't require a special character component to access) in?

There's also the question of how many examples and use-in-play sections you're going to do. People's heads exploded when Hero System 5e and 6e came out because of the size, but as Champions Complete (for 6e) showed, the rules system didn't actually need all that space if you trimmed down the...

I was a Dr. Pepper drinker for most of my life, and only gave up completely during COVID when it became essentially impossilbe to find Caffeine Free Diet locally. Past that it was pretty much fruit sodas or occasionally root beer (colas have always tasted to me like drinking dirty soda water)...

I'm usually not interested in doing that, either. But as I've said, I don't need or even really want, all the bells and whistles of automation a lot of people take for granted with a VTT.

I'm not saying its universal, but as I said, I'd be willing to put money on it being the common case. I don't consider proof particularly necessary on this, just my experience with the way people tend to distinguish between supervillains in every other game that makes a distinction like the...

Its more "in this case it wouldn't matter if they did"; supervillain teams as extra is sufficiently counter-intuitive that its just not where they'd go. As I said, whatever the game says, people are going to associate Extras with one of two things: 1. Generic opposition without much if any...

Its a good compromise, but I'm not sure how many GMs would think of it, even if they were aware of it.

That's pretty similar to how 13th Age handles minions/mooks.

And I kind of doubt they would with supers, which is kind of my point. Its just one of the few genres where fighting what looks like at a distance as groups of Wild Cards appears to be what frequently happens (which doesn't say the other can't happen--single supervillain with thugs or agents is...

I guess I'm just not seeing any obvious line between "This faction has rebuilt its city into a city-state" and what you seem to be referring to.

Like I referrred to, you can certainly have localized apocalypses. Its just that if people think of that only in terms of global effects, that isn't it since parts of the world kind of staggered and kept their feet.

I'd completely forgotten about that one, even though I was getting ready to run it at one point. I think it might be a bit far from what people usually think of as a post-apocalypse setting though. There's also a Savage Worlds version.

Yup. But at some point if you say you're running X, but house rule it too extensively, I think I'd argue you're being deceptive, even if not deliberately. At some point the proper description is "home brew with a basis in LevelUp (or whatever)".

The problem with this is that there's long periods when the world didn't really have an established "whole society"; in fact, I'd argue you have to hit really recent history before that describes our world (and it can be argued part of that is because of various apocolypses that just didn't...