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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Water Bob" data-source="post: 6687998" data-attributes="member: 92305">Not always played that way, but yeah, I think the definition of roleplaying games is to have a game with roleplaying.Otherwise, you're playing a different type of game.It doesn't surprise me that you think this way as I have said before that the 2d20 system is more akin to playing a board game like Risk more than it is a roleplaying game.I'm sure some will agree.  There are all types.  But, I think that good roleplaying is the highest experience a person can have with a roleplaying game.RPGs aren't Yahtzee.  They aren't computer RPGs either.Having a player be so attached to a character that he plays him like a real person is generally the goal.  Sure, that person can do super human things, sometime--which can be a true thrill.RPG characters shouldn't be the extra lives a person gets when playing a Computer RPG.  This is why your Threat Mechanic doesn't work for me.  When a character is heroic, he's punished, or the group is punished, later on.You hit the nail on the head.  You're describing characters as playing pieces, like extra lives in a computer game, where all you have to do is reload your last save.I'm talking about emotional involvement that delivers (what I would argue is) a superior game experience.Most games, including d20 based one, can be scaled.  How much you roll over your target gives you your "successes".For example, for every 5 points rolled over the target, the character obtains a success.I'm a HUGE Star Wars fan.  I LOVED the D6 WEG game.  Like Mongoose's Conan, I bought every supplement and rulebook ever published for that game, in all editions.  The new FFG Star Wars dicing system turns me off, big-time.  Thus, I have not purchased the game.And, all I'm seeing here is that the design philosophy about the new Conan game is exactly my impression from reading the playtest rules--nothing about the game's rules jive with how I like to play or what I consider good game mechanics.</blockquote>

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