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And this is one of the reasons I consider Simulationist/exploration game design to basically never lead to great results. If instead of...

And in case you have forgotten all weapons in oD&D did 1d6 damage. So they may have had 7hp but your average second level cleric...

Thsts the point. For me modern game design is exactly getting a low complexity for a given target depth. Beacon is so good because it...

Anyone who wants to make a living at doing something is going to have that goal. Baker’s even successful at it, which suggests that he’s...

Not even Pride & Prejudice & Zombies. In AD&D 1e an orc did 1d8 damage, which is a reasonable benchmark. Your average second level...

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

I run player driven campaigns pretty much exclusively. There can be GM driven segments if the players actively pursue such things, but...

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

If you rolled low, sure. But if you rolled high the opposite was true. And proportionally the rate was faster because you didn't...

But the way hitting things with metal cutty things work in OD&D and AD&D are not "realistic", they are simulating a particular kind of...

Because that isn't the type of game the OP is talking about. I'm not assuming, I'm basing my response on the contents of the opening post.

Again I'd rather not use that as a game design description; contemporary classical music started in 1945.

All else being equal I'd agree with you - but there's something to be said for rough edges in places; I wouldn't want e.g. Call of...

Levels in the abstract are a bookkeeping convenience. Levels as used in D&D where your average person is either level 0 or level 1 and...

To an extent. But applying pressure isn't the GM forcing the choice in what they do about it.