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When I first started playing Castles and Crusades I had a player who even though they really preferred games like Pathfinder she didn't say that she liked that the rules didn't get in the way of the story.

My dad hated D&D but not because he thought it was satanic but because I spent more time playing than studying while I was in college. He attributed RPGs to me goofing off while he supported me in community college. So I kind of got it. Seriously, I just wasn't a college person and eventually...

I have spent most of my gaming life defending Hero System. It's true that character creation can take a lot of time but the actual game play is usually not that bad.

I remember trying to make a character for Starfinder and I just had no desire to go through all of the technical work when there are systems that do Science Fiction so much easier and better IMO.

So, in another post I mentioned a gaming group that didn't come back to my table because I mentioned that I preferred lighter systems to crunch. In our discussion via text this came up: Less rules = less consistency. There's more opportunity for conflict arguing about how something's been...

I really don't like Roll20 but it's about the only VTT that people want to use. I really prefer Owlbear Rodeo.

This whole discussion reminds me of when Daniel Craig was being cast as James Bond and fans were tearing down the movie before it even came out.

Hero of his own story.

Sorry, but Doom callously murders people that simply annoy him and he rules his people with an iron fist. Make no mistake he is a tyrant.

So, my wife and I have both been gaming since the 70s on and off. We have played many different games and really love just sitting around a table and playing with friends new and old. I find that I really prefer rules light games because the rules don't get in the way of the fun. We live in...

I have played in games that lasted for years. Hell, I ran a Golden Age Champions game for several years. However, I did trade off GMing with other GMs. I was never in a gaming group with one forever GM.

I am in a bi-weekly Pathfinder game and I think some of the people that left us are local so there is a community. However, the gaming store I play has stairs to the gaming table and my wife is confined to a wheelchair, also the area we play it is kind of cramp since the rest of the gaming area...

I know what you mean. I have to resist the urge to buy another game as I will just have it collecting dust in my library. However, I don't want to get rid of any games because I keep thinking, probably incorrectly, that I will play it one day.

Limited time and resistance to change. I have a biweekly group that plays every other Sunday from 1 to 5. They only have so much time to play and are presently playing Pathfinder 1e. I didn't suggest an Alien War/Hero System one shot to playtest for upcoming Gary Con. I got zero response on...

Me too.

Totally agree with 3.5 D&D. It's is a crunchy system, the heaviest rule set of any edition, but its rules are exception based. This rules works unless you have this feat in which case it works this way unless the opponent has this feat which counteracts this rule and so forth.

So, I posted this elsewhere but I just had a gaming group break up with me and my wife because I mentioned that I generally prefer lighter systems as opposed to their heavily house ruled D&D 3.5 game that they wanted to play long term, say about 2 to 3 years of play. I never actually said I...

True, it's like DCC but much more simplified.

I prefer my magic to be unpredictable.

I think a lot of stuff in Shadowdark is designed is direct contrast to 5e and to a degree 3.5. Messing with spellcasters was a way step away from caster dominance.