I agree, strong typing is for weak minds. I work with a weak mind so I want strong typing.

There’s no difference in speed between typing disciplines. In point of fact, there cannot be. You must know the structure of your data to program against it. Whether you write it down explicitly or implicitly changes nothing but the location you wrote it down.

My guess is that this is really a measure of how much abuse the language will tolerate. C# probably lets you get away with a bunch of things (like checking for nulls) that F# requires.

As a pasty ginger, I’m super jealous of what you consider a sunburn and not just an amazing tan.

Yeah. A hack is usually a little more than just a modification, but there’s no strict definition or anything.

I basically like the way Knave is, but there’s a few things that I found didn’t work well at my table.

• Item choice paralysis. Do you buy/carry a hammer? Nails? Chalk? Ink? An hourglass? … There’s like 36 odds and ends in the game (100 in 2e.)
• One use per day spell books. Knave 2e solves this with Int uses of spell books but I mixed it with:
• Ability to lose items. A character built around a concept should retain the ability to use that.

So I changed some things.

• We use item kits. These are quantum bags of items related to a purpose. Say a climbing kit or an alchemy kit.
• Item kits can be tracked with item slots as they are, but most kits will be like 2-3 slots so it makes more sense to cut the number in half and stop varying size of items.
• Having cut the number of things to track in half, Art slots are added back in. These represent proficiencies/abilities that can’t be lost. Most of them literally are just kits but they can’t be taken away. So a Climbing Art does what a climbing kit can do (save for things like pass an item around since this is a personal ability).
• I use a standardized art point system so all arts consume these points to activate.

There’s some knock on effects too. So I have different ability scores for instance.

I’m working on getting yet-another-Knave-hack together. Also beating my head against its inability to write lists without getting very bored.

Fair enough. Though everything gets extra salt in this household already, ironically because of that very med.

I have an air fryer by proxy. Is that good enough?