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The problem is, on the level I'm talking they didn't see different things. I'm not talking about how wild and wooly campaigns were or...

Well, in my case its a group composed of people I've been playing with for anywhere from a quarter to a half century, and consist of...

Very little can explicitly prevent a GM from inconsistent ad-hoc decisions. Rules can help shape the GM's decision space (eg: the...

Matters of degree matter. If I have to explain why that's true, I kind of doubt you're going to get it. And I'm not much interested in...

Yeah, but "this is what this game is about" is a pretty low bar.

I was making a more general point; though I'm not hostile to behavioral rules (as you presumably aren't completely since you reference...

No joke, though I have experienced both people asking me to make stuff for systems I do not know, and have "reviews" on youtube where...

I'm not even sure Traveler ever mentioned gender, so you're almost certainly right.

True, and those were my group's preferred systems at the time, along with Classic Traveller, which also had no modifications for sex...

Hey, now. That might have been a persistent problem, but I'll point out I never saw any particular problems playing a female human in...

Yeah, there was a distinct difference in tone before and after Gygax figured out his finances actually turned on how much people paid...

The underlying disagreement here seems mostly to be not actually about the decision making process, so much as the player relationship...

This is why I say I'd rather have more extensive rules that may not always make sense than a GM extensively making decisions on the fly...

Our planet needs better humans. So get in line.

For my less-flippant answer, I am in a similar boat. Like, I don't need specific characteristics I'm my task resolution system because...