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Certainly up for debate, but I genuinely think the little motions that go into understanding the roll, the weapon, skill, environment, etc modifiers, the carried over bonuses from table to table, that particular weapon vs that particular armor, hitting that 66 on the crit table. The...

Everyone will have their own take on this, but as someone who has spent a lot of time actually implementing software to run and automate RPGs in various ways, my ultimate conclusion is that engaging with the systems and understanding them adds immensely to the game; outsourcing it to eg. a VTT...

Echoes of Burning Wheel social mechanics in there.

"Roll to grow potatoes, please." "Critical fail." "Well fu..."

Possibly for some things, unlikely for many others, and impossible for certain things because they're made by certain people using certain materials and it just isn't replicable.

Worth also knowing that just because there's eg. a 15% tariff on something, that doesn't mean you'll pay just 15% more. My wife recently paid 70% more on clothes from Sweden, in part because UPS has a brokerage fee, but in part because <we tried to figure out why and simply failed; the system is...

It's a firehose; I wish more Discord communities were forum based.

(Speaking to GURPS as mid-crunch) Well GURPS has a fair amount of crunch in gameplay as I recall it; been a minute since I played, but you have to do stuff like check weapon type against armor type and your weapon can get stuck in the ribs of the guy you're poking and what not. That's pretty...

It may be quite crunchy, but it's also not GURPS or HârnMaster or Phoenix Command 😄

What is 'hopepunk', precious?

It me. How many variants are enough for you people?! <yells at cloud>

Not that they were out and out cozy, but some of the most tense and memorable games I’ve run have been ones where the stakes were super low. It’s much more relatable and personal.

<choosing to go the ignore route rather than the noise route, apologies for my momentary lapse of judgement>

Well I'll certainly concede that 7E is a game overburdened by unnecessary details, in reality it doesn't play the way it presents. I've played CoC since the mountains were young, and I don't think I've ever seen anyone use the <checks rulebook> brace rules, say, for firearms. If that's what you...

The kickstarter was for the second edition.

And the price for most pedantic post goes to... I don't think the poster meant to suggest that any game that isn't crunchy is automatically horror, roll for SAN for the reductio ad absurdum. Moreover CoC is hardly medium crunch, it's basically a simple roll under through and through (whereas 5E...

Ugh, missed the free copy. Not sure when the kickstarter ran, but there’s no print edition out? Also, how compatible is it with eg. WFRP 4e material?

I’ve always found that it’s not the genre, it’s the group. Paranoia with the wrong group? Excruciating. With the right group, you’ll laugh until you cramp up. Some of my all time favorite games back in the day were in Paranoia, and it all came down to a group of friends who just had one...

Drums. Drums in the deep.

“Best game we ever played.”