Recent content by Reynard

More importantly: is Matt on the 'zempic?

Was this a thing, too? Between Darrington press abandoning Daggerheart and this, we will never see a new RPG again. Good thing we can expect a new edition of 5E every year going forward, just like CoD.

Aren't these "skill hit points" then? The very thing you are arguing against?

Dammit. He's getting into my brain. I resisted the original KS, but he is selling me...

Then why do HP go up with level?

Is this the first book that is going to join the million dollar club before it even funds?

I will say this: it is refreshing the way MCDM does realistic funding goals, rather than chasing the "funded in 30 seconds" nonsense some other publishers do.

Another good one is having the bodies of guards or whatever the PCs have already killed disappear, with the only clue being a drag mark ending at a wall.

Obviously we disagree. I don't think there is anything wrong with broadly applicable abstractions like Hit Points and Armor Class, but I think they have evolved far out of the sphere of being "simulations" of anything in particular, particularly in modern D&D (and Hit Points particularly have...

And this is why HP are not a sim tool: they change what they represent from moment to moment, monster to monster, encounter to encounter. They are just a measuring tool: how close am I to going down?

I really like rolemaster. The Arms Law stuff is not that big a problem if you photocopy (or these days simply print) the tables the players need.

I think that is still overstating it and making it sound more like hunting unicorns than it actually is.

Map design should facilitate looking for secrets -- secret doors, hidden alcoves, traps, etc... -- by enticing the players to wonder why this particular area feels different. If we are just reducing it to automatic die rolls, what is the point?

So who precisely am I gatekeeping? Please do be specific and bring receipts.

Maybe? I don't have the first idea of how one would go about it, what kind of financial investment it would require, or how you would make the contacts in the industry in order to help get the data you would be looking to collect, report and share. it sounds hard.