Recent content by Micah Sweet

I can reiterate my opinion about story elements in RPGs and narrative-based mechanics from earlier in the thread if you like.

Sometime I think so, yeah.

Which is why that technique is predicated on the marks never finding out

It stops you from talking about D&D here, in the main community of EN World. Sure, you can talk about D&D elsewhere, if you can find people elsewhere to talk to about it, but the main community is no longer available for the activity you previously enjoyed.

This is exactly what I'm talking about

That sounds like an argument for newer is better.

Of course not. A large part of that time was spent trying to enjoy the current edition despite it not meeting my preferences. Didn't work out, but I refuse to believe I didn't try hard enough because the result weren't positive.

I suppose, but I have a hard time believing you don't think rules for a water voyage aren't practically possible.

I don't like how glorified athletes can get. The term "hero" gets thrown around way too much IMO for people who are good at sports.

Not sure what your point is here. As has been suggested, there are different degrees of exclusion.

Two things: 1) I feel 1.5 years of genuinely playing a game counts as "looking at things to see if you find a way to like it". 2) what I really want is to play a game I find fun, and to run a game I find fun, and to model a setting using rules that provide a level of sim I prefer. If I just...

Very much so. I want to play an RPG that has procedures for as many things that can happen in the setting as is practically possible.

For me, the simulation and setting logic of the circumstance is the good stuff.

Why should the procedure for handling a water voyage be different based on whether or not the acting character chose to do it?

...yeah, to a degree.