@Yolfen You got me thinking about a rules/perception thing with dice though - not type, but number. I think in contrast to AD&D, rolling multiple dice is way more emotionally satisfying - like even if it actually didn't translate to a higher chance of success, it LOOKED more like you could succeed and you had a really physical handle on how badass your character was.
@Yolfen Thanks! I definitely got the feeling that AD&D was/was regarded as kids table stuff, so I wanted to check if that was a universal thing.
It definitely read to me that Shadowrun and White Wolf had the Dark Future aesthetic we thought was cool (which is weird considering Dark Sun, Ravenloft, some aspects of Planescape) - I definitely think some of it was "AD&D is your first game so you're going to want to progress." Now I wonder if some of it was TSR trying to be family-friendly/humorous.
re last boost;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dj%C5%8Dji_(Noh_play) turns out the illustration is for a story which is really a weird key noh drama.
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