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EricNoah said:The current version of the game somewhat requires the participants to have a better knowledge of the rules, and rewards those who do.
I have a ready counter argument to this: unarmed combat. Two versions of D&D, two versions of AD&D, and a book on Combat and Tactics were not able to produce a rendition of unarmed combat and grappling understood by anyone.
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