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  1. Maxwell JoslynJanuary 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM

    For those who need encouragement to click pages they've probably seen before: Alexis's doing a lot of new writing on the wiki right now, and it's worth checking out.

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  2. James SettanniJanuary 26, 2025 at 11:42 AM

    A truly interesting set of rules.

    A few nitpicks, for your consideration:

    The most experienced fighter in existence still has a 5% chance of dropping his weapon on any given attack?

    Critical hits are not guaranteed to hit, but critical failures are guaranteed to miss?

    How many sage abilities you get is not entirely clear, my best guess is this: each ability 'costs' 10 'points,' total points accrued are kept track of separately and used to determine which abilities are able to be 'purchased.' I could be entirely wrong but neither the section on knowledge nor the one on sage abilities clearly outlines how many, nor any other, as far as I can tell.

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  3. Alexis SmolenskJanuary 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM

    It's a game, James. The richest person in monopoly can still go to jail.

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  4. Alexis SmolenskJanuary 27, 2025 at 9:41 PM

    The number of sage ability points is explained on this page:

    https://wiki.alexissmolensk.com/index.php/Sage_Ability

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  5. James SettanniJanuary 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM

    For the first point, I think it is entirely reasonable for such a chance (of fumbles) to exist, but that the strongest and weakest fighters have the same chance (with the negative effects being mitigated for the strongest, but, again, the chance remaining the same) is strange.

    On the second point (crits), it shows that, on average, characters are more likely to fail than not. This is fine, for low to high-level characters, in the case of a low-fantasy setting. But, when epic level characters remain so similar to first level... It brings into question the point of gaining levels.

    For the third point, suffice it to say I still only have a near-certain guess (95-99% sure), but, ita est vita.

    The only logical conclusion I can draw is that the game you run *is* so much more engaging (which I have good reason to believe such is the case) than the rules make it out to be, that the rules do not matter at the end of the day.

    Perhaps it is simply that I am dense, a possibility, which, I realize, appears quite likely.

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