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So, the point is even more extreme then. No one should be allowed to design games that @FrogReaver likes, because if they're allowed to exist there is a chance that people who don't like that style might be forced to play them and endure terrible torment? I ask again, who are these people that...

Who are these people, exactly, and why you are assuming they're sitting at a table with @FrogReaver while he participates in this game, and being subjected to this horrible experience? Because I strongly suspect they exist only in your imagination, and there is no need for you to protect them...

The problem is, there's no good means to measure who is actually running what and how. At best, you might be able to make semi-informed guesses based on what is posted on reddit, EnWorld etc, and what the active posters there claim to do or like. You might draw some data about people who game...

In Ars Magica, stay-at-homes level faster. They just don't get to have as much fun.

Meh. You just wasted a whole five minutes, and it was your choice to push your luck trying to get a bunch of extra skills knowing full well that you were already extremely lucky to have survived two terms as a scout. Edit: to answer your follow-up question, modern versions have much more...

1. The default game setting is the periphery of a crumbling pseudo-Roman Empire, but anything you can do in B/X you can do in ACKS, plus more. Any existing Mystara modules and setting stuff you have will fit in pretty seemlessly, just like it will with many OSR products. 2. IMO, the best bits...

Not to put words in @zakael19's mouth, but I took it to be an assumption that, one way or another, this is what will happen in the general style of play where you are looking to maintain a specific narrative thread, not that it happens in any and every game.

The problem that I, personally, have with this (and which is only a problem because of the style of play I'm generally looking for, and not because it's wrong in any kind of objective sense), is because I feel that it presumes that it is up to the GM to ensure the players have a way to continue...

I bypass all this using my patented Despotic Tyranny First approach.

The old classic. High stats lead to overconfidence, lead to death.

If I know what it is, I will probably call it what it is. If I'm not sure what it is, but am thinking about possibly drinking it, I am likely to ask if it is coke or say something like, "what type of cola is that?" but I will certainly not refer to it as coke unless I have reason to believe it...

What if your preference is to participate in a range of different games where different levels of exceptionalism are appropriate? What if it actually does "depend"? If you'd said in the OP that you only want to hear from people who have a clear preference for a particular level of...

My broad preferences are to mix it up, with maybe a slight lean towards preferring games where they start as mildly exceptional. I also don't really like the "should" phrasing in the thread title. PCs should be suitable for the game being played; the idea that there is any kind of level of...

I don't think it's a bitter pill at all. One of the key things I like about 1e combat is that it supports reasonably large scale combat with multiple formations (15 - 30 combatants to side) where manouevre, formations and morale are important. If 4e was trying to do the same thing, it was only...

But what if using the feat as written will deflect the asteroid onto a collision course with a bubble in space-time containing an entire pocket universe, filled with millions of peaceful civilisations? And only you have the power to decide whether to use feats to save the Earth, or allow the...

Instead of changing feats or sticking with an unfun RAW version, have you considered just using the version that you all like and thought was being chosen?

It was bad in that it is basically impossible to derive a clear, RAW interpretation that isn't contradictory in some way. In that respect, it is definitely unusable as it reads, without some kind of modification. Weapon speed factors interacting with spell casting times was especially...

I have been giving some thought to how Blades would have worked for me if we had only called for a roll if we felt there were plausible and interesting outcomes for all possible levels of success or failure. And it would absolutely have broken the game for me. I was OK with the results not...

No. I'm assuming I call for a roll when I think it's necessary. I grew up on Rolemaster, and the nature of open ended rolls resulted in a playstyle where rolling was generally kept to minimum, used when the outcome is genuinely in doubt or the consequences for failure are significant and and...

I have played in a fashion where rolls tend to be extremely rare since the 80s or 90s. If there is no combat, it would not be unusual for there to be no more than two or three player-facing rolls in an 8 hour session. When I'm running an OSR game, the only rolls the players are likely make...