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They didn’t look like the high heels in that picture though.

This was my complaint about some of the art in the Radiant Citadel book when it first came out. I know it's meant to be all non-Western...

It's the high-heeled shoe that turns me off. This and the TNT plunger detonators, the museum cafes, the heat metal hot plates. Things...

Another thought--there is a difference between improvements in presentation of mechanics and the mechanics as such. The switch from...

A lot of D&D chatter everywhere leans heavily anti-WotC...

I'm sure they have. And sometimes the revisions to games are indeed about "making them work better" in a sense that the game did not do...

I am an art teacher, so I obviously am well aware of the importance of technique in art. But your view seem to be incredibly reductive...

Why reinvent the wheel? Systems like ACKS, Rolemaster, Hackmaster, and GURPS work great...in my opinion. What kind of modernization do...

Bridge, Mahjong, Spades, Cribbage...varying ages, but all more than OD&D.

I'm arguing against the assumption that new is better. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. I gave an example of a modern simulationist...

I didn't mention Chess.

Are you assuming that metacurrency is an objectively superior mechanic than not having it in RPGs? Otherwise I'm not sure why you...

I think it is far more apt comparison than cars. Like I said, we have more to compare to. But most of game design is ultimately about...

I've got a ton to say on this topic, but not the time at the moment. But for now: I think the interaction between rules and creativity...

Folks currently make sim games, and games with significant sim elements. Some of them, like Rolemaster and ACKS, do things very much as...