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I just force my kids to play RPGs the way I like.

Oh, naturally. Any extra tactical choices are. What I'm questioning is whether the extra is significant at the...

Its more the kind of kind of repeated hand-wringing about it that gets a little odd, man. I mean, my taste in game design isn't exactly...

To be clear, I'm not hostile to them. They aren't probably supprting the kind of tactically rich and deep-delveable games I prefer, but...

I'd suggest you're conflating at least two things together, there: 1. Published changes. Yeah, nothing you do is going to change those...

I generally agree, but would expand this to say, "Wherein the ability to 'do or try anything' is predicated on an imagined fictional...

Though to what degree that is, in practice, true can vary considerably depending on campaign type and structure. People playing most...

I'm not sure what makes you think that big parts of the hobby aren't already in that direction. As I said, it was 50 years ago. I mean...

True. I played a half-ogre 2/5ths of a century ago.

I think the idea is that position ends up needing to be managed in a game with maps anyway, where things like conditions are extra...

I don't know why it should be depressing that some people are very casual with the hobby; there are plenty that are with any other...

Its probably one of those things that varies immensely depending on game culture as much as age. There were people who liked playing...

In my opinion, the real thing that makes RPGs RPGs isn't "storytelling" but agency -- the ability to do (or try) anything.

Sure. But new people are coming in all the time and older players leaving, so assuming token play is attractive to newer players...

So I'm looking at that data (released in early 2024, for end of 2023 stats). Summing up the values on the chart, I'm seeing just under...