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My deepest condolences to Greg's family and close friends. 

The great man will live on through his work and the people playing in his worlds.

3 hours ago, Psychman27 said:

The rules for opposed tests, page 142, do not define how to determine "the better result" when both parties get thr same grade of success. In d100 systems there are a few different approaches used, namely - 

The distance below the skill value (involves subtraction on the fly) 

Some form of grades of success based on 10s below skill value (subtraction, plus what if both roll same grade, so issue not resolved eg WFRP 2nd)

"The Price is Right" higher natural roll within the skill range wins. 

As far as I could see which is in use was not stated at all in the opposed test section. 

My understanding is that it is designed to create ties in this particular situation. I wouldn't consider it a correction per se. Maybe a clarification.

On 06/12/2017 at 2:49 AM, Mugen said:

According to the kickstarter site, 5th edition is going to use a modified BRP, just like 1st and 2nd did.

3rd edition used words instead of numbers to describe one's attributes and skills. Instead of having STR 16, you were "very strong", for instance. It used a simplified resistance table, based on a d20, to resolve tasks.

4th edition was d100, roll-under, but not BRP. Chances of success were determined by multiplying an attribute by a number, depending on difficulty (1 for very difficult, 5 for easy). There was no skill level at all : being trained in a skill added 1 to the difficulty modifier. It was also not very successful, as far as I know.

For this one we're keeping the d100 spirit but with rules tailored to the Nephilim world. Occult investigations, a revised magic paths system, no individual skills but past lives "packages" used to solve problems. Also we're testing a "roundless" combat system based on post-it notes. All this is still in early "beta" state.
And seeing how the world has changed in the last few years, we have a system to deal with the problem of surveillance and security that require the Nephilim to either find places away from prying eyes to act or deal with Secret Societies' plots to find and expose them.
 

On 31/10/2016 at 9:43 PM, metcalph said:

The story behind that was that the translator had difficulty deciding whether God Learners should be the Learners about God or the Gods that Learn (an interpretation unknown to me until I heard this story)

So he asked Greg.

Whose answer was "Well, it's ambiguous..."

As the translator in question, I find amazing that this anecdote has been kept intact in some memories other than mine or Greg's