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Phoenix Dawn Command is a fully card driven RPG, co-written by Keith Baker of Eberron fame. As characters advance they get to do some...

These were really interesting to read about. Thanks! These sound like concepts I want to learn about and start looting from. Yes yes...

That is your right, of course. It’s about the right tools for the job. If you have a lesser power which can take out orcs but not...

I don’t see it that way myself. I see this as an efficiency challenge, and that is a completely real-world consideration. For example: I...

Interesting, I’ve not read that one previously. There are some similar but opposite systems like ‘mana accumulation’. In the GURPS...

One thing I do for situations like this is ask for everyone who wants to try to make a roll, then I look at the group successes and...

We found this an interesting side effect of the escalation dice in 13th Age. It encouraged you to use your lesser powers at the...

How powers work is probably one of the most distinguishing features of systems that include them, and because of this I have a fairly...

Yes to both. There is a numerical value which grants points which can be spent for enhanced results. But you always count as capable in...

Of the Gumshoe games Swords of the Serpentine is the one that does 'fantasy' the best. Plus the setting is one of the best I've ever read.

Maybe check out some of the Gumshoe games? In that system skills are split into ‘investigative skills’ and ‘general skills’...

Nah, my goldie and my collie are more than enough work! I shall have to make do with a mere 75% Yorkshire disguise. I did have a roast...

Did you bring a whippet?

Last year we visited the Cornish Seal Sanctuary in Gweek. In addition to the seals they had a puffin enclosure where rescued puffins...