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Come on, man, I've explained that multiple times: because players don't get to just declare houserules. Heck, under a few situations...

Sometimes it won't. It depends on the specific problem area. Its most useful when its addressing a special case that applies to a...

There's an argument there, but I think that'd be more about the focus on action-adventure fiction as a basis in general, not why...

There are distinctly advantages to hexes, not the least of which making some movement issues massively easier. I probably played a good...

If this is going to be anything other than people's opinions, you have to come up with a metric for what the "golden age" means. Is it...

I didn't mean the Western as the genre, but as in "RPGs created in Europe and most of the Americas". I was contrasting it with some...

Yeah, the problem with this line of argument is that it assumes there is something that gives a good view of the state of the hobby. I...

Both can give skewed projections, I don't think there's a single thing one can point at and say that this represents the state of the...

That’s not what I said, is it?

A workaround uses other extent rules to bypass (to some degree) the problematic ones. It doesn't actually change any rules.

Then they'd be incorrect. That is not and has not been my point. I also disagree with your last paragraph but see no useful point in...

Actually, its becoming more common for dedicated VTT maps to be gridless, but that wasn't always true. Loke, for example, produces...

Part of it really is that adventure fiction is, while not entirely dominated by it, filled with violence, and at least Western RPGs are...

Yeah, that's all why I said "vaguely useful metric".

Sometimes you don't pay attention, Micah. I've mentioned that I've used house rules for my whole career in the hobby. What I won't...