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I pulled this section out, because I think you're broadly right here (in that there's a rejection of adventure path style or sometimes...

Eh. I could name several of relatively recent vintage that are overtly simulationist that don't think they're "retro" and in some...

You're missing the point. People aren't going to stop thinking that way just because a game tells them to. Some approaches to engaging...

Neither does mentioning to them that's what you think they're doing. So I still stand by my opinion ignoring or reporting are your...

If, instead, its about who I suspect, its just one of their quirks and one might as well just ignore them and move on if it bothers you.

There's always two problems with this, one more severe than the other. The less severe: When you're exhausted or injured, even when you...

The the scare quotes show a bit of the problem with this statement. As phrased this could be essentially a tautology. This assumes...

Which is why I mentioned I'm unlikely to make how you'd like the discussion occur. When you bother to mention that, if its not an...

As I note above, I don't think the arrow points only in one direction there. In some cases it was design choices to reduce load that...

Definitely. Its visible in both D&D 4e and 13th Age. Its most visible there because there are clear predecessors to compare them to...

RM character creation is certainly its own thing. One time, a player joined our group so made something like a fifth level ranger and...

All fair enough. We wouldn't have automatically found early mortality offputting at that time, since we were still playing RuneQuest...

I'm not going to speak for Micah--we don't share that much in taste, though not nothing--but my feeling is that reducing GM overload...

Well, sometimes the issue with the "unsolveable problem" is that it genuinely is unsolvable, its just the people presenting it haven't...

I think an issue with random tables and why they fell out of favor is how little thought was put into their execution. Early games had...