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The other rule 34: War is good for business.

War?

Humans die. Well, we die rather rapidly compared to "superior" species like elves and dwarves. That means that a human who wants to have a legacy in the world needs to build something that will outlast them: a business, an order, a school, a community, or a family. And those communities keep...

The only thing that makes sense for people hp is Aura: a rapidly regenerating energy field that protects you from all but minor injuries, and even those heal pretty quickly, until depleted at which point you can take real damage that may kill or seriously wound you. Main problem is that it's...

Sure, but is accessibility the only measure by which the quality of a game should be considered? I, for one, prefer a game with some crunch to it. Not Rolemaster or 3.5e levels, but a bit more than 5e. Another consideration is that a "rules-light" game often doesn't have rules covering many...

Speaking of things being wrong, I just got myself a moderately big spindown d20 for keeping track of Heat in Infinity. I was quite surprised when I realized that the makers had ignored one of the main points of a spindown die: being able to seamlessly flip it from 20, to 19, to 18, and so on...

I am reminded of the saying that complexity is the currency with with you buy depth. Now, you can certainly get better or worse deals when doing so, but if you want a mechanically deep game you're going to need some complexity in it.

Morale bonus from bless or Inspire Courage, luck bonus from prayer, maybe some insight bonus from psionics... and let's not forget AC which would commonly have armor + enhancement bonus to armor + shield + enhancement bonus to shield + natural armor (which is of course a separate category from...

The problem with 3e modifiers was this: That's 16 different bonus types, and I think other books added others. You also had indirect bonuses, e.g. a cat's grace spell giving you a +4 enhancement bonus to Dexterity which in turn increases your Dex bonus by 2 which may or may not give you +2 AC...

That's what I meant by "westernized version". Less jumping from tree to tree and more ferocity and toughness. My point was more that the feats done by the main characters in CTHD and other wuxia movies are clearly impossible in the real world (without the aid of wire-fu and such). But to the...

I don't think anime is quite the right term for 4e martial heroes. A better term is probably wuxia, albeit usually a more westernized version. In Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, no-one is calling the incredible feats of the main characters "magic". When Jin kicks the butt of every adventurer in...