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Not quite the same as what? I liked the careers in 1e and 2e.

Maybe 'the rest of the world' just means the US, but in the UK poor loser and bad loser are common and sore loser is not.

RPG's can be like a "guerilla game" and same as to that, the guerillas win by not losing. Which in this case is not dying, basically.

I'm with you. I used to play Magic the Gathering at a semi-competitive level (two GP day twos and one PT), and I still play at local...

Agreed. This is what I was trying to get at earlier in terms of this being a game design/game choice problem. It is not an unavoidable...

If optimizing wasn't encouraged behavior by default the game shouldn't make optimizing good. Case in point: Swords & Wizardry Complete...

Your honour, I didn't kill them. I just introduced a substance into their food, which - when they ingested it - disrupted some cell...

You only ever respond with 'well ackshually' and pedantry. Please stop responding to me at all.

I guess I just don't live in one-second intervals.

Is this the sort of game you enjoy? No wonder you're not interested in Burning Wheel then!

But if they don't even match reality it's hard to have a discussion

Rubbish

I'm simply going to laugh at the idea that Apocalypse world has few meaningful choices during character generation. And then try to work...

That's why I said degenerate. 'Fighters should have high strength, weapon specialisation, and maybe throw darts' is optimisation but...

The rolls etc happen at the table. Not in the fiction. The rolls affect what we at the table agree to imagine together. They don't...