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Well, this why you and I are different people, because I would go about my life, doing what I wanted, all the while looking for ways to...

At least, not exclusively on the character sheet, yes. Mechanical rewards are fine by me if they are associated with a real thing in the...

I think Micah is talking about diagetic rewards -- that is, following a characters motivations leads to rewards in the fiction, not on...

Say rather that all that reads as "meta" to me, as in unconnected to the setting in which play takes place. It is a level above the PC...

All true. That's what subsystems with their own mechanics are for, IMO

You can reskin the entire game, sure. The result will not bear any resemblance to what happens in Pride and Prejudice, however...

Ah, narrative stuff. Not my thing. I prefer rewards to be grounded in the setting. XP for completing for pursuing your PC's goals is...

And here, you're doing the heavy lifting with "unnecessary". You'd find a lot of it unnecessary because you don't find engaging with it...

The "if" at the start of your second sentence is doing some heavy lifting. Sometimes engaging with the mechanics in certain ways is...

That is one way to do it, but player motivations are their responsibility. For example, one of the PCs is the last survivor of their...

Why would the act of pursuing goals have a mechanical effect? What kind of effect would you expect it to have?

Ok, so more "sandbox-y", I suppose (at least how I normally use the term.) Player-directed, but not built around the characters.

I may have been unclear. The entire setting fits the over-arching story being told -- the PCs as a revenge squad against the Usurper --...

You are assuming that everything faced by the PCs throughout the campaign relates to the ultimate goal of overthrowing the...

And yet Star Fleet Battles has a following. :P What you dislike, others like. And vice versa. There's room for all types of games out...