Recent content by Micah Sweet

Yeah. The less advanced models are not IMO sapient, whether they can talk or not.

It is my understanding that a lack of memory wipes leads to an increasingly complex personality for the droid, which can functionally be considered free will. R2D2 is a good example. Full memory of all nine films.

No, I don't think play is necessarily the highest priority. I still like to play when I can, and when I do, simulation and verisimilitude are my priorities.

And I have no interest in them.

It's what I want out of RPGs, and I work very hard to make it as much like that as I can in my games.

It can, but it might be a hard sell if it has no relation to the real world.

Because I prioritize setting logic over game balance and PC specialness.

Because they would logically exist, for a multitude of reasons.

That is wholly untrue in my opinion. Some options are, by the logic of the setting and the reality it simulates, more or less effective than others. That is life, which games often try to simulate to one degree or another. To have options of realistically unequal quality be equal anyway is not...

I'd prefer it to work a little closer to reality than that.

Those are literally my favorite kinds of RPG books.

To some people. Probably many people. But not everyone, which means the unqualified, objectively-stated claim is false.

Precisely the claim I disagree with, at least as a general stance.

So you're discussing this purely from a design point of view, not consumer (or business; I believe writing to read absolutely happens in RPG design and publishing)? I can see your point from design, but not any other metric.

I believe there was a claim that "play is paramount". Not exactly what you're saying here.