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  • i second the comment that you need to consider why you want to do this. You generally need a pretty good reason to split your codebase into multiple languages.

    As far as actually doing it, you have a ton of different options, some of which have been mentioned here. Some i can think of off the top of my head:

    • create a library (dll or so file or the like)
    • set up a web server and use communication protocols (either web socket or rest API or the like)
    • use a 3rd party communication/messaging framework like MQ or kafka or something
    • create your own method of communication. Something like reading and writing to a file on disk, or a database and acting on the information plopped in

    basically every approach is going to require you to come up with some sort of API that the two work together through, though, an API in the generic sense is basically a shared contract two disconnected pieces of code use to communicate.








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    This, in turn, was basically faking out their users, thinking they were giving them the “best deal” like they claimed to.










  • I mean, as i stated, i can’t really vouch or argue against pf2e, since i dont play it and haven’t really read the rules of it since it was in playtest. That said, just googling, i see some things that could be considered exploits like a reddit thread talking about being able to do 520 damage in one attack, some chatter about a “resentment witch” being able to make power word stun or color spray effectively permanent, and a youtube video by the rules lawyer about “OP builds”, so it seems like there’s at least some system exploitation going on.

    Obviously a tighter controlled system is less vulnerable to exploitation (see D&D 4e), but that also doesn’t mean that is necessarily doesn’t exist. Another counter example system with lots of rules and lots of exploitation of them would be shadowrun, especially older versions, which were even worse than D&D in some respects.


  • yeah, unfortunately the CoC rules have always been kind of a mess. it still has a lot of that early RPG “stream of consciousness” aspect to it.

    But yeah, at the end of the day, the number of rules you have is far more relevant to how many “exploits” there are, so CoC/VtM being less “crunchy” will result in less exploits.