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I've occasionally had systems or campaigns fail out (usually pretty early), but there wasn't a big gap in my attitude toward it and the...

Well, that's the gig; given I first saw this happen in a traditional dungeon decades ago, it was going to be hard for me to buy into...

I'm sure you're right for some folks, but it is outside of my experience.

But again, it only became an unsafe option because of one specific event that, one way or the other, the GM introduced. "Should" is...

And I explained why it can happen with a simulationist agenda just as easily. What do you want, Micah?

No. They're not seasoned. They're travelling a path with a map in a somewhat wild area. They're fine as long as they stay on the...

Well, of course, sometime people on different sides do that because it doesn't appear other people do understand it, and worse, don't...

He usually strikes me as one of the most coherent arguments in this thread; I just think (and we've interacted enough in the past I...

What part of my description implied "wandering around"? The whole point was they were doing the best they could to travel safely and it...

That's a valid position, but its not the same as "What single points of failure?" and acting like they're only a story-intensive game...

I think there's steps withing each of those. I believe that's what the whole "degrees" thing is about.

That one is pretty extreme, but there are a lot of lesser ones: a group without a lot of outdoor skills loses the trail their map shows...

At that point you're doing the binary-view thing I've complained about again, since now there's only sandboxes and story-centric games...

That might be true, but its instructive to compare the yield for this one compared to their last several.

I'll note this makes the assumption there's something else interesting to do. That's not only not-storytelling, its very sandboxy in...