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The other part of that is know your audience and the space that you're in. If an OSR bro is talking about how much Cairn is easier to...

Yeah. Its very easy to drop into comparisons, especially if the benign element of the comparison (from your point of view) is part of...

Then so are level elevating hit points unless you consider D&D characters to literally be able to take several times the punishment they...

Bluntly? Something else. I've said before if I was reduced to playing nothing but D&Doids I'd just find another hobby.

The moment they want me to buy them, they sure as hell are. Its not like save point is such a common thing I would expect it before I...

There's an argument toward designing a game with a particular intent in how its to be played. I'm quite on board the base state...

To be really blunt, I don't care how much the designer wants a game to be played a particular way; it how they've mandated saving be...

He is the OP. :) And "the middle of a mission" is not the same as "the middle of combat".

Yet, somehow any number of modern games do so. That doesn't tell me that's a prohibitive case, at least with turn based games.

Also, I think there's at least something beyond "subjective preference" when, as RE has noted, one permits events the other doesn't. At...

Do Savage Worlds bennies count as "narrative focused mechanics"? Because, honestly, they're not materially moreso than hit points...

We need to know what you mean by "the same kind of game events", because this is a strange question. I say it's a strange question...

That's a factor, but its not an unlimited get-out-of-jail-free card for using wrenches as hammers.

If your criteria is "as easy to learn as something you already know" that's pretty tautological. Also, I'd need "allows for the same...

Oh, definitely. I just don't consider "requires a lot of prep" inherently meaning "bad for sandboxes." Bad for improv, sure, unless...