I already use real life fights to the death as mechanism for finding out the results of when a player character rolls some dice.

Boring: Game having some 'Distract enemy with talking' combat talent Exciting: Game having 'Distract enemy with sudden physical violence' debate talent.

My argument would have been based on "27+ years of gaming experience!", leaving out it's just a lifetime of playing the exact same game with the same four guys and three of them are named Mark.

Was thinking about starting a sarcastic TTRPG discourse like "Games shouldn't have combat systems - if real role players want balanced sword fights they just will happen organically!" Then I remembered most of my preferred games nowadays don't have complex combat rules and shut up.

Just moment before the gallop bounce generated a mass inertia that broke her in half. Rip big tittie centaur. We won't forget you.

If the conductor is not in a shooty mood that day it is the minimum of courtesy to reiterate what the calling person said every time before answering so unwilling audiences don't miss half of it.

Shark!

I remember the old Marvel Superhero RPG with all the weird tables and the rule that nobody gets XP in a session where ANYBODY died. That was a wild thing too us back then but worked pretty well to establish a silver age mentality.

Don't forget about cult assassins.

In a few years they will re-enact the great battles of that time in era-appropriate uniforms while live audiences will clap politely