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Every time you attempt to derail the conversation into the minutiae of skill increases that aren't part of the actual skill rolls that are actually under contention, you continue to prove what a dishonest shit stain you are. Stop it. OK Frank. Congratulations. I'm out. I will no longer contribute t...

No, that was the other player. Player A is seeking a new cult which satisfies their random behaviour, which is a cute and clever cover for desire for extra skill checks. Nope. You're wrong. Player B: Is there a cult with Chaos, Disorder, and Movement runes? Ahh, my apologies. I did mean to write :P...

First you say that nobody had to name Antares in your game, now you're saying that it does arise. That's right, nobody had to name Antares. However a non-stress use of Astronomy skill does arise. It is surprising that you seem to think the two are somehow the same thing. Are you stupid or something...

No, that was the other player. Player A is seeking a new cult which satisfies their random behaviour, which is a cute and clever cover for desire for extra skill checks. And calling player A out for being a munchkin for practicing sword fighting in a fight is weird in the first place. So you'd chan...

OK, so the rule example is "with 25% astronomy, you may have auto-success when nobody cares about the result because the question shouldn't even rise in actual game". Great.. And utterly useless. That's just a filler to make the book longer. Except it does arise and if it doesn't your Kee...

OK. So you weren't answering to my post. Whatever. Out of curiosity, why did you quote my post if you didn't intend to answer to it? I provided an answer for an example of the use of skills according to level without having to make a skill roll because it wasn't a stress test. I thought, in context...

Heck, I am even fine paying for it as long as the author understands that they have to sell me on something other than rules . If somebody writes a beautiful world with gorgeous illustrations and lots of interesting hooks for adventuring and archetypes for in-theme heroes, I wouldn't mind that it i...

In other words, the goalposts are whatever the GM sets them to be, rather than being defined by the rules of the game, and on this board, that's pretty much unacceptable rules construction. But it's only in the final instance. The game rules (again using RQ3 as the example) specify what are automat...

If the DM decides what my characters story is, why do you have players? Where does it say that? The example made it quite clear that the player was deciding their character's own motivations, however munchkin like GM: [. . . ] But really, it didn't constitute an advance in the story or your charact...

That's not a list of skills that such characters should have. That's a list of skills you can buy out of your EDU pool. "Can be out of your EDU pool" is a game rule, "should have" is a personal opinion. My personal opinion is that you should buy skills out of your EDU pool. Your...

If the DM decides what my characters story is, why do you have players? Where does it say that? The example made it quite clear that the player was deciding their character's own motivations, however munchkin like The system isn't "distribute six 50% and one 70%", but "distribute 320...

Question. Does this mean that the Danger Room from X-Men is the one true way of training in RuneQuest? If you pick locks while blind and on fire - you get a check. If you pick locks in a nice beige room with a manual in one hand while listening to Chopin, you get jack shit. I don't know what the Da...

E.S. = Elder Scrolls, computer games in which you get better at each skill by using it. This results in weird behaviour like standing in front of a crab that can't hurt you for three hours to level up your Light Armour skill. Dwarf Fortress would be another example with adventurers picking up and t...

Sooo, in a game with everyone understood on the conceits of it having a focus in powerleveling E.S-style, Sorry, I don't know what 'powerleveling E.S-style' means. Otherwise, I didn't really appreciate your terribly shortsighted & biased example. Could you explain why? The short examples cover ...

You make it sound like such a railroad, Lev. Could you kindly elaborate? I am more familiar with the term 'railroad' to refer to narrative development within scenarios which allow for little deviation from a pre-established plot (a lot of White Wolf products were guilty of this and, with some humou...

That is not a system by any possible stretch of the imagination. You resorting to that means that you have, in effect, conceded the argument. I agree it's not systemic, and I agree that it could be elaborated. So sure, I'll concede those points. Hopefully, you've - at least internally - learned a f...

Now the version of RuneQuest I happen to be looking at has an absolute hard cap that you can't get bonuses from training two times without getting a skill check in between. Could you be so kind to mention which edition? I have all of them. Maybe the version you're throwing out page citations but no...

I am not saying that the things you are saying are false because you are a liar, I am saying you are a liar because the things you say are demonstrably and demonstratedly false. It's different, learn to understand that or get the fuck off this board. Yes, someone who is wrong is different to a liar...

Wow. What the fuck is it about roll-under percentile systems that turns all of its advocates into fucking liars? Those game systems are incredibly and deliberately vague, can't you just come out ranting about how the vagueness is good instead of lying to people by claiming it doesn't exist? What th...

If you wanted any % roll under system to not be basically bullshit, you'd want to standardize what you could and could not do without rolling at any particular skill level. Which you will find does exist in BRP games, who pretty much invented roll-under percentile systems. For example Drive in Call...