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I get that, but its still notable that the failures disproportionately include physical products, especially non-book items.

Some of those I can get requiring more effort to get right--Le Guin requires considerable nuance for example--but Norton's output was...

There must be fifty ways to do so.

A lot of games I played in my heyday used 1 meter hexes. Heck, even the current incarnation of the Hero System does that as I recall.

A lot of choke-pointing, but has the virtue that since it isn't linear, the locals can know how to circle around those (and potentially...

I loved hte beastmaster books as a teen, the movie not so much And good question why no Norton made it to the screen, at least afaik.

Yep. This is why balance is aspirational - unless you tightly constrain the play space, there's no real way to know for sure your...

True, but balancing asymmetrical options is WAY harder.

Some people think of a lot of balance being too samey, though. I've seen it often enough in places where I didn't agree it was true.

For some of us, not completely (though they're not identical sets).

You can play Doom on a TI-83 graphing calculator. That doesn't make it a gaming console nor the best way to experience Doom. But humans...

Man, the more I hear it the more I'm glad that 95% of what I back is for digital products only.

As I said earlier, I think you have to assess games that are based on extent fiction or media properties different from games that come...

Take care, man, hear from you in a while.

I’m taking a few days off - the general site level of irony and cynicism got me down, and I need my emotions free for other things. I...