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Ah, sorry, I don't have those books and they're a bit too pricey for me.

The recap: When Oppenheimer said "I am become Death, destroyer of worlds" and they tested the atom bomb, he accidentally completed a necromantic rite that tore open a hole in reality and let magic through. Then the Soviets did the same thing in Antarctica, only it tore a bigger hole (and created...

Well, you wanted to know a way to model a character who knows more about something in a game without skills, and Daggerheart presents one way to do it. I doubt you'd like any game without skills.

@Reynard, have you ever read GURPS Technomancer?

Think of the damage weapons do as being scaled to a basic commoner/0th-level person. A D&D gun may do "not enough" damage, but it'll likely kill a typical person. And, of course, in real life, people have been shot multiple times and survived. The real problem with D&D damage is how...

Late to this, and I haven't read the whole thread to see if anyone has said this yet, but in Daggerheart, there's no skills. However, you have Experiences, and you can spend a Hope to add your Experience to your trait (attribute) roll. The Experiences can be anything, with given examples like...

Considering that most people know what you're talking about if you use the term D&D half edition, it has an accepted meaning. OK? So we can only use terms as WotC has defined them? That particular chain of comments was about D&D, not about all games.

Wow, you want to give more than just one-word answer here? Something to support your claim? And yes, half-editions are a thing. It's why it was called 3.5 and not 4e. You can call it a revised edition if you prefer, but that's just nitpicking on the name. And no, it doesn't matter what Call...

@Soloist didn't say that 2e was a dramatic departure from 1e, and 3.5 was a half edition. If AD&D was being published today, I'm pretty sure people would be calling 2e a half-edition. Also, what Pendragon and CoC do isn't what D&D has historically done and so is irrelevant. Especially since you...

Pick the undead one and say you're an agent of Azalin. He and Strahd are rivals, so that would be a lot of fun.

Yeah, but you also get like, Tier 4 minions, so... I dunno.

Speaking of SJG, I'd kind of like a new edition of In Nomine. I've only played it once but it had an almost-but-not-really-GURPS clunkiness to it.

Holy cow! Welp, I'm signed up.

In all seriousness, since there's no way to adequately represent real-life damage in a game (simply because there are so many different bits here), yes, they would. In real life, a well-placed shot would automatically kill any of those. So unless real-life people are critting all the time, yes...

I just grabbed the Mortasheen book (in pdf). I'd been waiting forever for it to be released, although I've been wanting it as a setting guide/monster book for reading rather than as a game. As a setting guide, it's great. Fun concept, fun monsters, fun world. As a game, it seems simple enough...