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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6159315" data-attributes="member: 42582">I think it's obvious that this won't be true for  all D&D players.That is, for some another PC can't just be rolled up and played instead - for whatever reason a particular PC is integral to the campaign, or that player's conception of it. And the nature of excitement, and who is thrilled by what, is also highly variable. For instance, I find combat in 4e more exciting than combat in Rolemaster, even though Rolemaster has much more of a "death lottery" aspect to it (via its crit rules) because of the pacing of 4e combat.And on the subject of difference of taste, thanks [MENTION=85555]Bedrockgames[/MENTION] for your reply. If you want the "death lottery" aspect of SoD in your game, then poison is as good a place as any to put it, I guess! On the chlorine gas issue, one of the first things I noticed as a new player reading through the Rolemaster bestiary 20-something years ago is that the Rolemaster green dragon breathes poison that engages that's system's poison mechanics rather than its attack table mechanics (this isn't as big a difference as in D&D, because RM is death-by-wounds rather than death-by-hit-point-attrition, but it is still a mechanical difference derived from D&D). And one interesting difference between HARP and RM (given that HARP is mostly RM-lite) is that HARP takes poisons and puts them onto an attack table like the rest of the system (so there is an Internal Poison attack table for poison needles, chlorine gas etc and an External Poison attack table for acid, dragon blood etc). I prefer the HARP approach for its greater mechanical consistency.</blockquote>

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