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That was how I felt when I saw it; the most radical thing seemed the handling of spells and the attack rolls against Reflex, Fortitude and Will. The rest of it looked, well, just like another D&D version to me.

What people could see of my face probably looked younger than half the people in this thread, but I was already 63 at that point. Keeping most of my hair and it still being relatively dark probably helps.

Yeah, while its particularly common in the D&D community, I've occasionally hit people who who've only played, say, FATE driven games who go into other games and are seriously nonplussed by the fact they don't go by the same assumptions.

Yeah. Kind of the price of the relatively insular game culture parts of D&D have produced.

They've seen it in other games (including some prior versions of D&D) and just took it as a given? Its not like people don't carry over expectations from other game systems all the time (sometimes to their regret).

I can see how people who'd never seen it otherwise would not expect or, really, even understand the idea of quasi-objective DCs.

Yeah, you can set up things so some Mages function similar to D&D clerics if you want, and I'm suspecting anything you wanted to do with a Ranger could be managed with at worst a custom Specialization for rogues and/or warriors.

I've been fortunate that I've rarely been left completely hanging. Some games were slow as can be (sometimes for reasons I understand, some less so), but the only projects I can think of that appeared to be completely abandoned or not delivered were Grimmerspace (though someone has just picked...

Gorram, Danny, you're stylin' in that picture.

Hmmm. I've seen plenty of games that allow repeated attempts on skills, there's just some caveat on what's needed to do so (extra time, additional resources, etc.)

Though you definitely see some D&D heritage in Fantasy Age, but its in a very indirect fashion (D&D->computer games->Dragon Age->Dragon Age RPG->Fantasy AGE).

Absolutely. I've known people who game multiple times a week, though usually in separate unrelated campaigns, and they were racking up as much or more time than I did when I used to game every Saturday and Sunday, even accounting with the longer playtime than most people can do on a weekday...

Heck, I sometimes regret going to every-other week because people can forget what happened last time. I'm not sure I'd bother with once a month.

Good gods, a lot of us are old. :)

Yeah, there's some real issues with top-end in a lot of game systems that, depending on pace-of-advancement make this really complicated.

But have they? I've seen one person say he saw them a lot locally withing a specific slice of time in the past, and one or two person who says they do them. That's additional data points, but I'd argue the range in space and time I'm talking about is considerably greater than the examples that...

I don't have push alerts, and at least when I'm home I've pretty much been surgically attached to my computer for a long time (and I don't try to participate in online discussion on my mobile devices; I find the keyboards too annoying).

Fair enough. But as I've noted before, when I've seen pretty good trends over the decades talking to people in a lot of different contexts about a lot of different games, and some things are very rare, someone has to come up with an explanation of why my experience is not representative to me...

Picture of me a few years back at the start of COVID, getting ready to go out to buy groceries.