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Part of it is, of course, that when Trav was created, the mechanics were such that there was a very strong incentive not to let players...

Traveller's inability to distinguish routine (which teaches only slowly) from high stress/high activity environments is one of the many...

Not that a lot of these companies aren't trying to make that disappear, too.

I'm not sure I really have a pickup game any more (my RPG running in the last years has rotated through too many games for one to have...

They're still not morale checks, and as I said, the game itself says to limit how they're used in fantasy genres.

I can get that. I just think anyone who's willing to deal with D&D style hit points shouldn't get too strident talking about gamism as...

Though as I've noted before there's at best some selective pleading for people who play D&D and object to "gamist" structures; the game...

The point was that your personal perspective on it has nothing to do with whether it is, in fact, absolutely that thing and no other...

Uhm, they absolutely can do that if you roll badly in SW. And there's no hard line between "creatures" and high end violence.

Fine for you, but I absolutely know people who'd see it that way if the consequences were at all significant.

Whereas that's the exact opposite of what I want to have to work with; a coherent system tells you a lot about proper ways to do new...

Note, as I commented before, that's not how some people will feel about it; they'll see it as a failure where you've been tossed a bone.

Sure, but they usually (note the qualification) aren't mostly about that, whereas Monsterhearts, well...

Not like I don't do the same thing. I just have the advantage I'm even bothering to read the posts of about half the participants in...

This gets back to the thing I've brought up where the fact a social influence mechanic, just because it can work and is binding seems to...