Micah Sweet's latest activity

You are IMO overstating your case. A single game can and often does have mechanics for a wide variety of things that nonetheless are...

The evidence that I simply don't like modern rules and concepts continues to mount...

See for me, you include rules that let you model barbarian warlords and also Victorian noblemen, and don't use the rules that aren't...

What mechanics would you even need to force that kind of play?

I think we'll need to be deliberate and specific in order to have a useful discussion here. People are throwing adjectives around like...

That's frustrating; I feel for you. I too often have difficulty encouraging players to be proactive and decide where they want to go in...

Amusingly, we use games for different purposes but see the same way in this case.

I don't think it is a problem either. I like games as games. But the argument being made was that D&D's mechanics were built to emulate...

Awesome! I play tested that!

Coming soon (as in, before the end of the month and likely MUCH sooner): a conversation with Mike Myler about his new backerkit project...

I don't see a problem here. Use the mechanics and create whatever you want over the course of play as desired. Why should the mechanics...

All I want from mechanics is that they help me model a thing that exists in the setting in which the game takes place. I don't want or...

Exactly. Art for me is about telling me what things look like, often in relation to other things. Anything else is very secondary.

I found the illustrations in the AD&D(1e) books to be some of the best in book artwork of the game's run. Most were on point...

depends, there definitely are novels with strong world / setting building, but as I said earlier, writing a novel instead was something...