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The way it seems to usually work here is there'll be one or two self-checkout areas (which are often 3-4 self checkout stations in a...

Though I have to note some kinds of mechanical focus don't exist until certain periods. Everything has to be done the first time at...

To my mind, the turn of the century is suitable demarcation for "modern" in RPGs. Here is what I mean: Just as, say, musical historians...

That’s probably fair. Meta currencies, things like the Doom pool from Cortex and so on, the escalation dice from 13th Age, are all...

Its probably more visible to me because I'm an old fart and remember when I started seeing things like the two you referred to above...

We have those locally, but they're frequently closed.

I can see going back to checkers being a loss-prevention thing, but most of the places around here that have self-checks, don't have...

Unrelated to the above: I know I'm always going on (and on (and on)) about different media being different, but there are reasons TV...

Yeah, that's annoying. I don't need to go through a checker when I'm buying five things.

probably because you consistently refused to answer their question…

Yeah, sorry, in my head I was in the specific X-Com thread when I responded. I do think zones are great for a different style of...

I think your first reaction here suggests you've gotten confused which thread you're in (I realize there's a lot of overlapping topic...

The games I consider modern tactical games share the following characteristics (though some might miss a point or two): What Makes Them...

I'm going by third party descriptions, but wouldn't you consider Malice and heroic resources modern-ish at least?

You're the one who decided to use a confusing term without any examples. What kinds of mechanics do you define as "modern"?