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I understand there can be all kinds of reasons for doing that, but I do have to suggest if that's your view there's a certain element of...

That says nothing about what the GMs who use them think, however. Well, see my final comment in the post two up. What GMs think...

I'm not sure that's been true for quite a long time now.

It doesn't help that there's a certain momentum-of-expectations that you have to deal with, and that's immensely stronger with D&D than...

At the tail end of the Black Friday sale on DTRPG I bought the second editions of Mutant City Blues and Urban Shadows.

I'd bought everything a couple weeks ago (don't remember what the sale was, but there was one on GOG).

Presumably because they assume it suggests the setting is coherent and not generic and shapeless. (Note: at best I have a leg in this...

I just hadn't been under the impression that "character positioning in combat" was a thing they value very often. As I said, I'm...

Yeah, unfortunate with the way momentum and my acrophobia interact its hard for me to not be looking at the corner (or more commonly...

I hadn't been under the impression that games at that end were particularly big into tracking position in general, but them not being my...

I certainly read it (I try to do that in general if I'm planning on actually engaging with the thread proper rather than just seeing if...

Yeah. I'm not a motorcycle rider but I'm prone to doing that and I very much know its not what you want to do intellectually.

Well, and just how much engagement you feel in the combat part of the game. If someone just finds combat a thing to get resolved to get...

I gotta be honest, over here in the land of my increasingly myopic rules-light preferences, the difference between these two points of...

My personal observation long since was nothing will destroy your ability to take curves properly like your acrophobia apparently...