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Did you read the quoted text I was responding to?

No I'm simply saying that saying "I don't mean this disparagingly" doesn't mean you're not being disparaging or that you're immune to all claims to the contrary.

[Random Person's] views are clearly garbage. Now, just to be clear, I don't mean that disparagingly, because one person's trash is another's treasure, and this garbage being spewed by the [random person] is clearly of value to some people. Being garbage is a good thing, in this context, and...

The Battletech RPG is Mechwarrior. Edit: Which I see @Maxperson already mentioned.

Yes. I wasn't responding to an assertion that its part of the job, but a question as to what else the job could possibly be. In any case, as I said, it's not really the way I think of the role. YMMV.

I agree with pretty much everything you're saying here. It's certainly not that hard to just say, "You can only get things we agree are reasonable," and it is, in fact, necessary to do so. That does leave me a bit confused, though, as to why you won't accept this exact same kind of agreement...

Can everyone not see that there is a difference between direct and indirect consequences? And that arguing about exactly where the line between them lies is going to be pretty pointless?

How about "adjudicating the things the players are making (or trying to make) happen"? Or, "assessing the results of things that have happened." Also, "Describing the situation." In play, while sometimes I make things happen, I certainly wouldn't say that's my primary function -- not by a long way.

Yeah, I've always read it is players who legitimately feel it's the way the character would behave. That could be because they're naturally disruptive players who created naturally disruptive characters, or it could just be the way things worked out even if everyone is participating in good...

It it is my understanding that it is fairly well accepted that people are, in general, not great at assessing risk. This, then, appears to be a dispute over how an individual wants to interpret "we know what the risks are at least to a general level," in light of the low average quality of...

It has 8 eight hours of sleep required to restore casting ability as was standard in the pre-4e days. Not as such, although a character who reaches 0hp or lower is likely to sustain a serious injury (assuming they survive at all) and will often not be combat capable without some long-term rest...

A while ago I saw someone on another forum comment that RM does the Forgotten Realms better than D&D. I have never had any interest in Forgotten Realms, but I've since discovered that the 1e Forgotten Realms is actually pretty cool, and I've been having a lot of fun adapting RM to run my next...

Who is going to force you to use @FrogReaver's system against your will?

Enforced in whose game? Not yours, I'm quite sure. If in theirs, then, why are you opposed to this?

It only sounds great because it is!

OK, now we reach the true crux of the issue. @FrogReaver'a preferences should be opposed and derided because there's a chance that if they're allowed to be defended and repeated they might become widely popular and it's important to you that only your personal preferences should be accepted as...

Everyone wants games that cater to them. This is normal, and not something to be attacked or questioned. At no point, ever, in the history of the universe, has @FrogReaver said that everyone else has to play their games the same way @FrogReaver prefers. I defy you to find anything anywhere where...

Yes, they have. That is the whole basis of my position. I have seen people say, "Well, I've been gaming since '76, and I can say most people were doing X & Y during Z period." And then someone else will say, "Well I started in '75 and no one I know ever did X during any period. During Z, as far...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. You are deferring to your decades of experience, which is a perfectly natural thing to do. But there are people with similar amounts of experience who will tell you that they have seen different trends and that what they've found to be rare is different...

That sounds a lot like my original point. :cool: We have very limited and self-selected data pools to begin with and, even with the data we do have, the information is often very fuzzy. My overall position on the topic is based on a different set of data -- it's the number of people I see pop...