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I did a couple based on the journeys of Al-Musadi and Ibn Battuta and the like, and they are largely a set of terrain/weather based...

In most games IME, they really don't. Fallout looks like a great game. Picked it up not too long ago.

I tend to think of conquistadores in the New World as perhaps the closest to D&D style adventurers we've come to in real life. Just what...

Hey, at least it's not a surprise, and generally it's a result of your own choices. And "spreadsheet exercise" is an uncharitable way to...

That’s no different from death due to combat, however.

And yet, it is still fun. (I predicted your reply almost down to the word, BTW! You’re nothing if not reliable! :) )

My answer to that is to work subsystems around the abstract nature of hit points that allows for things that should result from life and...

I feel that Level Up and the Without Number games handle all those things well enough to have a fun campaign. They do it differently...

Depends on the players. There is a place for character death in RPGs, and it doesn't have to be "when the player feels they've told...

I disagree. You can make it interesting. We treat “Supply” (being food, water, firewood, medicinals, and other consumables) as...

Level Up is a wonderful system. I'm currently using it to run a during-and-post-apocalypse game (using some rules from Voidrunner's...

The short version of this question—D&D lacks a full exploitation pillar; what games feature one? I will of course (and predictably—but...

To be fair, plenty of adventurers as we understand them also fall into those categories.

A little simulation could help with that. I know I feel more immersed when logistics matter in my games.

I think if you can do it successfully in other media, there is probably a way to do it successfully in TTRPGs.