I did note Dungeon World as a possible alternative if you’re dead-set on D&D as your genre startpoint. I think from a difficulty perspective it probably works just fine...playbook-based character creation also makes things very simple. I also think the PbtA die system as standard is a little punishing...unmodified…

The Deluxe edition of Tunnels and Trolls was released in 2015. That and all other Flying Buffalo publications are available on DriveThruRPG: http://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/2238/Flying-Buffalo

I’d say broadly this is true, but the thrust of the article is certainly implying that the author is running the game for kids who don’t have the attention span. I wouldn’t want to run 5e for kids who couldn’t stay at the table during a rules reference.

Another good recommendation.

Fate Core is both a better designed game than Savage Worlds and has a better-written manual for first-time gamers. I’ve run campaigns in both. If you want an example of stepped dice done well, go Cortex.

You’ve missed the most important potential advice to introducing your kids to role-playing games:

We did driver’s ed through the school, so I ended up taking the test in a driver’s ed car. What was it?

In the time that has elapsed since I’ve purchased my last two cars, both financed at an average rate of between 3 and 4% APR, my brokerage account made 15.5% APY. Consider it a counterargument.

The upper theoretical efficiency limit on any heat engine is the Carnot efficiency, usually notated as 1 - ((cold temp)/(hot temp)), with temperatures in Kelvin. Given a gasoline engine’s combustion temp of around 600 degrees C, in a largely standard environment (0 degrees C), the Carnot efficiency would be…

Yes, that’s right, because as long as you don’t move the bolt you have done no work.

One watt.

What confuses the whole thing is that, given the dimensional analysis used, we do multiply torque by rpm to get horsepower. That said, it’s torque, not horsepower, which is definitionally rotational (a moment on a lever arm as opposed to a push or pull). Torque is assumed to be force per rotation, engine speed is…

Just directly addressing the claim that Acuras are always heavier than Hondas. 2006 is of course an awkward year being a generational switchover.

The 2006 RSX-S is 100 pounds lighter than the 2006 Civic Si coupe.

That’s so lame, though...

Those are fair points, yeah. That all said...the lack of any sort of suspension tuning for the 3rd gen Sport is possibly then even more bothersome, given the much wider applicable parts bin for damping and spring rate solutions compared to the fairly trick integrated torsion beam from the second gen.

Yeah. There was no Fit Sport trim on the third gen until this year...check the specs, and it’s purely cosmetic.

I mean, I know, I love my Fit. But I do not regret buying a 2013 Sport instead of holding out for a third gen, not for a second.

If you drive a 2nd gen and 3rd gen Fit Sport back to back, the 2nd gen is noticeably tighter (especially a 2012 or 2013 with the stiffened chassis). The weight is only a 13 pound difference, so there’s really only one fundamental change.

If Honda had seen the light and put the rear sway bar back in the damn Fit Sport this year, we wouldn’t even need to talk about the Yaris iA. *sigh*