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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8310050" data-attributes="member: 18">You could point a gun at my head, [USER=6780330]@Parmandur[/USER], and I wouldn't agree, in 2021 lol. I've played so many games with such good skill resolution systems, including better &quot;fast and loose&quot; ones, that it is never going to get respect from me there. No guidance, high RNG, many DMs become catastrophists, and the whole thing often isn't even fun.It's basically DM fiat. You got a good to great DM? Skills going to work good to great. You got a normal or inexperienced DM? Ehhhh it's not going to be pretty.In like 1990, I would have been like &quot;THANK GOD FOR 5E!&quot; skill-wise, and in 2000 I'd have been &quot;Well it's a hell of a lot better than 3E!&quot; so there's that.I think you're coasting on a good DM and a great group there <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> But what do I know, right? Honestly. Not everything lol.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8310050, member: 18"] You could point a gun at my head, [USER=6780330]@Parmandur[/USER], and I wouldn't agree, in 2021 lol. I've played so many games with such good skill resolution systems, including better "fast and loose" ones, that it is never going to get respect from me there. No guidance, high RNG, many DMs become catastrophists, and the whole thing often isn't even fun. It's basically DM fiat. You got a good to great DM? Skills going to work good to great. You got a normal or inexperienced DM? Ehhhh it's not going to be pretty. In like 1990, I would have been like "THANK GOD FOR 5E!" skill-wise, and in 2000 I'd have been "Well it's a hell of a lot better than 3E!" so there's that. I think you're coasting on a good DM and a great group there :) But what do I know, right? Honestly. Not everything lol. [/QUOTE]

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