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Not necessarily. They're an abstraction, sure, but an abstraction of something very real in the fiction: becoming better at what you do...

Taking @LuisCarlos17f group image, I used FireRed Image Edit 1.1, running on local computer, and gave it the original image and...

Other than trophies not intended for active use, every example I listed are things that adventurers have in my game found - and still...

There's quite a lot of spells (and thus, potential demand for means to cast 'em more often) that'd be useful for rulers and governments...

Sure. But are those the majority of the magic items out there? And, indeed, do active adventures really represent the majority of...

I find the opposite: there's too many distractions at home that aren't present if people are somewhere else. One of the players in our...

I think it also depends on do you run online game or face to face one, and if it's second, do you play in public space or private space...

Even as early as the mid 80s we'd have some arguments in our crew about when to "turn off (or on) the reality simulator", between those...

Also I don't think simulation per se is unpopular, people still definitely want some amount of it, even though they are satisfied with...

Our system makes it trickier as we allow players of multiclass characters to choose the xp ratio that goes to each class, subject to a...

Clearly we play with very different groups. Round here, if there ain't a big payoff involved - or at least the clear potential for...

Citation needed! That sounds a lot the kind of sage posterior wisdom that did tsr in. You say that "modern players" quite...

The way to beat that is fixed prices and no haggling. Otherwise the game can quickly devolve into the PCs trying to buy low in one town...

Along with, perhaps most important of all, nobility and the non-adventuring rich. Nobility might commission items that help with...

To be blunt - not a fan. It's a way for experienced GMs or players to hold an edge over the inexperienced, or worse, the ones that...