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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...

In my main group, some of the players have an acknowledged tendency to go down planning ratholes. They've gotten much better about it...

There is a wonderful serenity to the idea that the hobby is big enough for both of us.

Real life is often boring, frustrating, or all-around awful, none of which are good things for a game. If the players are actually...

Yeah, for some of us interacting with the mechanics isn't just something on the way to the story, its part of the point in the exercise...