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While you're technically correct here, quicksand or similar as a hazard in deserts is a trope as old as time and probably isn't going...

And compared to the size of the overall hobby the player-base of those dozens and dozens of games adds up to a rounding error, which...

This one's always been a problem. A simple, if perhaps inelegant, houserule solution: on a point-blank shot where the shooter has time...

Still means you're using what we agree to be bad D&D to disprove your claim, thus putting the disproof on a shaky footing. And a threat...

For simple resting, proportionality makes loads of sense IMO. That a 75 h.p. Fighter and a 20 h.p. Mage each can only rest back 1 hit...

I've spent some time trying to get to grips with the hidden design principles actually at play here. Mostly I think it comes down to...

Every game in existence, every simulation for that matter, simplifies, makes assumptions and create abstractions to model complex...

I like a challenge. And I believe your original post on the matter to be incorrect. The bolded parts specifically. It was never only...

Even the simmiest of sim types have to accept that the abstractions required to make the game playable end up producing some necessary...

When people tell me that the only reason I like what I like is because of it's what I'm used to, when they insist that the only reason I...

I think a single game should not try to please everyone. Too many people want to play rules as written and blindly follow them wherever...

This example (2nd example) sounds very much like something that could occur in one of my d&d games. It’s a great illustration of what...

The Dragonlance DL1-12 module series might just be the railroadiest adventure path ever printed so I'm not sure I'd want to hang my hat...

And sit through an argument every time. Ruling "No rolls before I ask for them" just brings pestering "Can I roll yet?" requests. If...

Over what scale of in-game time is the conflict expected to keep rising, in order to "count" as such? The journey through treaty lands...