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I see what you're saying. I guess for me Lara Croftian plot armor is part of a genre like pulp, but I agree that generally speaking it's...

The rules for journeys in several games (mentioned by me above) do a great job of handling stuff like that as exploration challenges.

"Oregon Trail" definitely needs to be only part of the gameplay loop. Oregon trail makes things interesting by having river crossings...

Sure, and planing is 90% of job. But it's rather boring as game play loop. Once you start your journey, you might as well play Oregon...

I loved Oregon Trail, so comparing RPG play to it doesn't dissuade me. And boring is of course relative. Lots of folks enjoy a planning...

Nice list, which has some I hadn't thought of. My work in progress below. I conceived of it as some kind of 2d4 or 2d5 table but the...

I can think of: Finding treasure Finding mundane or arcane resources Finding new lands to settle/leading settlers to same Finding new...

Which is why planning your route and supplies is so important, to make up for the stuff you can plan for, like blizzards and ice devils.

Well you've accuracy described the players at my table...

Trek has plenty of stuff in the narrative layer, no doubt. But not the examples you gave. Those are scientific, natural phenomenon...

My issue here though is that all those things you mentioned for Trek are considered scientific facts (and in fact are such) in universe...

I've played a ton of STA. I'm not a Trekkie by any stretch of the imagination but the game is super fun. The game system reads strangely...

I'm all right with it not being realistic as long as it is honest about doing it. 100% people should play what they like and if they...

I love STA (mostly because I love Star Trek), but for me it is a specific departure from the type of gaming I usually enjoy, with all...

The Mythic Britain & Ireland supplement for Vaesen.