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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nnms" data-source="post: 5926353" data-attributes="member: 83293">I'm not sure I'd agree with this being the result of hit points, but hit points in relation to weapon damage.  Historical aside: Unless you've got hardened and tempered full plate (developed near the end of the Hundred Years War) which is effectively arrow proof.  Then charge away.  Unless the archers have heavy crossbows, in which case you are hosed.A couple gaming buddies love Rolemaster and advocate for it whenever we finish up with one game miniseries and are talking about the next one.  I'd like to give it a try, but both of them want to play it and won't GM it, so yeah.  That's probably not going to happen.This.  Absolutely.  It provides a certain type of play and does it quite well.Burning Wheel looks like a trad game with stuff added on top, but I think the procedures of play really end up shifting the focus onto the added on stuff.  Excellent game for running GMless once everyone has bought into the procedures.I'd play Pathfinder Beginner Box or the D&D Next playtest (as they are very, very similar) but I think I'm done with full-on 3E.  Though E6 combined with the free OGL Grim & Gritty rules is a good implementation of 3E.I should have expanded more on what I wrote there.  I didn't mean it in terms of railroading per se, but just that the movie scene was the result of preplanning rather than spontaneously being produced by some sort of resolution system.  I think full on story games where you resolve the whole conflict are far better at producing movie-like play.I'm just not convinced 4E's halfway is the best way to do this.  I think I'd rather use something like In A Wicked Age and get some "For Love" and "With Violence" going on to get the right to narrate the outcome of Sheriff of Nottingham's men getting reduced in potency as a far reaching advantage of the sheriff.[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGoWtY_h4xo]Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You - YouTube[/ame]</blockquote>

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