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Because it's easier to throw the latest Monster of the Week at players than it is to craft NPCs and relationships such that there is compelling drama. Combat is easy. Drama is hard.

That's really weird to me.

If I'm playing a board game (like Xiangqi/Chinese Chess) what's cool is when I spot an opportunity and exploit it. This is playing according to the rules of the game.

If I'm playing a card game (like Fight the Landlord) what's cool is when I assemble a good combination of cards that drains my hand with inexorable play. Or when I find just the right timing to interfere with someone else draining their cards. Again this is playing according to the rules of the game.

In sportball, presumably when the audience is going wild at a cool play by some player they're playing according to the rules of the game. (I can't attest yeah or nay to this because sportball isn't my vibe.) Is this not cool? (I'll let sportball fans answer here.)

So why would RPGs be the exception to this? Why do you have to break the rules of play to do cool things?

That's really weird to me.

It hinges on whether Canadians will continue to tolerate Americans in general or not.

Signs point to "no", if prevailing trends are anything to go by.

Why don't you stay in your homeland and fix the problem you had a hand in creating instead of exporting it?

The fact you're using "fee fees" unironically says enough about you that I'm pretty sure that Canadians don't want you. We have enough assholes, thank you very much.

I still have no idea. "I critically succeed." How? Why? With what?

There's a reason why rule books are larger than half a page of A4. I genuinely have no clue how this works even with an example. Because there's no explanation.

Your example needs to be "explain like I'm five"-grade. YOU know how this works. WE don't.

I'm going to have to see an example of play that highlights the various subsystems here. I can't make heads or tails of how to use this as-is.

Oh, God. Freeze Peach has reached the UK.

And here you come SO FUCKING CLOSE ... and still fumble the ball. Tsk. Tsk.

(Hint: Check your assumptions. And while you're at it check the thread history.)