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In case people are interested, the Backerkit campaign has started, and they had one of those "basic target reached in first twenty...

It does kind of break a hard-line between physical and mental mechanics if someone is trying to draw one there, however.

I think the "just about every other RPG out there" is an overstatement; your second half is probably right, but in a number of games...

Though I do think there's some justification for at least limited things you didn't actively buy into requiring action. As I referenced...

Absolutely. I've played and run many games like that. As a GM, I expect players to play these traits out and earn the benefits they...

Well, duh. What else?

This thread led to me googling Fudge last night. Is this thread a secret Game Necromancer's plot?

Wasn't like token play wasn't a fairly common, even popular style early on (the game got its start with wargamers after all), and its...

You have a point. I suppose I let my irritation with Narrativism overwhelm my rhetoric. It's not fair, and I apologize.

And it doesn't map age or much else in any obvious fashion. I've talked to gamers in their 20's who really want physical books, and...

There's certainly some I've tried to locate digital copies of from the early days of the hobby with no luck (Space Quest and Droids)...

Yes. It's definitely an opinion. Considering the OP called it a "rant" in the thread topic, I would imagine them to be aware of the...

I want to suggest this delicately, since I'm not automatically going to be on the OP's side in any given thread I post in, but I do have...

Well, I'm only dipping in every few pages myself; I have some related interest, but most of the back and forth for the last several...

You guys are on your own. I can't believe this thing is still going.