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Are you sure about that? Here's what REH had to say about historical fiction. A more likely explanation was that he could sell his fantasy work while his main market for historical fiction - Oriental Tales - shut down and he'd been rejected too many times by Adventure. I just got back...

It depends on how you're using "event." If opening a tomb and encountering animated skeletons qualifies as an "event that the players react to," then perhaps. If not, then no, we don't agree.

Stop there. Unless your setting is called the Wilderlands of Likes and Dislikes, this is not a sandbox. My opinion, your mileage, et cetera.

My personal preference is for purpose-built roleplaying games. One-size-fits-some I can do without.

That doesn't sound "sandboxy" to me. In a sandbox setting, players explore the world. They don't create it. In my experience, opinion, mileage, and all that.

Historical roleplaying games share similar features with historical fiction. In historical fiction, the protagonists’ story takes place against the backdrop of the historical period and events; in many cases the protagnoists’ story is interwoven with the personalities and events of history. This...

"You must spread some Experience Points around . . . " :erm: Can someone help a brother out? EDIT: Thanks, jonesy.

Please forgive me for re-ordering things a bit, Janx. Here's one way to handle it. Of course I'm exerting influence over the game - I run the world and everything in it, so how could I not? What I think is important isn't that referees make decisions - it's that referees may use very different...

Gaming for me right now is the best it's ever been. The only thing I miss is more time to play, and even back when I was playing more often, it was still only three or four times a month at most, so it's not hugely different. So, plenty of good memories, but very little wishing it 'could be...

This.

I didn't care for the Saltmarsh modules, and I'm personally unfamliar with any of the other modules not part of that series. So for me, not so much.

Blackrazor.

Apples and oranges. You might as well compare Climb to Starship Piloting. One is something garden-variety humans can attempt without any specific training, the other is very clearly not. And as far as swimming goes, there's a difference between swimming and not-drowning; an untrained character...

The humble school bus.

And what I'm saying is I prefer to let any character try to climb, but the skilled character has a better chance of success than the unskilled character. I'm not fond of systems where only a character with skill x or talent y or feat z can attempt an action; I prefer that the skill or talent or...

Gracias.

"Here's the world. Go!"

Whereas I like systems that get away from this sort of fiddliness. It creates these fiddly little niches that add nothing to the game for me.

You can accomplish the same thing with rules like d20's take 10/20 and Flashing Blades' skill mastery - when you reach a certain skill level, routine tasks don't require a roll at all. *looks at thread title* So 3e isn't D&D anymore?

I think we're talking about modularity in two different ways: I'm referring to character creation specifically, not the relationship of the climbing rule to the rest of the rules for skills or what-have-you. This actually reminds me of something else, though. I understand that Mr Mearls'...