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Well, if you're not a big fan of the rules of a given tabletop game, a computer game being faithful to it isn't going to feel like a virtue.

(To make it clear, I'm using "you" here as a stand-in). But are you really? Ever looked at how often people get incredibly soggy if a...

Sometimes? It at least means the players know how something will likely be resolved rather than finding out I didn't get enough sleep...

Yup. Which is why even in the post-VTT period, telling people to go find a game that suits them better can sometimes be a bit--rich.

This is kind of an important side-issue here; its not like play errors that cause problems are limited to GMs. Its just that in trad...

To be really blunt, you're one sample and I've heard at least a good couple dozen to the opposite, so you've got the right to push back...

It wasn't to do with that, other than having to do with the difficulty of people finding games other than D&D.

No. At some point we just expect that the occasional failures of process are part of the biz. That's not a trust issue, that's a...

It helps, but I still think it ignores some practical limits of process, as I explain in my discussion with Micah earlier. In some...

The question would be, basically, how much the fantasy miniature wargaming fandom and the fantasy roleplaying fandom overlaps, and even...

I've said how. To be clear, I'm not talking about the sandbox/railroad issue here; I mentioned earlier in the thread I think Ezekial's...

I'll be blunt here: I've seen enough people still struggle with this, that I'm sticking by my statement. Micah said (correctly) that...

I'm not unaware of how things have changed, but I'm still of the opinion that "non-issue" is hyperbole at best.

Then you do. I absolutely think it can help in a lot of contexts. Any number of people clearly feel to the contrary, and that's...

Sure, but note the person I was responding to in this subthread said it was a "non-issue". Bluntly, that's just nonsense.