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You are not wrong about your need for rules. You are wrong about my need for rules. Because I actually don't care about shotguns beyond the worst unrealistic tropes about how shotguns function, I have no need for a rule that produce believable shotgun results. If you care about these things, I...

Okay, at this point, I don't even remotely understand what you're saying anymore or if you're saying anything at all ... I'll leave it at that you're obviously a very experienced GM and should continue with what you're doing, because it seems to work for you. As I will, however inferior and...

... and that is based on your previously uttered notion that "if there's no rule for something, the players usually won't even think of trying it", which, as far as my experience goes, is just not a general truth. As far is I can see, this is the whole extent of the misconception at work here.

Yes, exactly, but the choice what trade-off is best for you is individual to you and your group. I just take issue with the stance of "if you think you're better of with your 100-page system, you're deluding yourself, because this system is LACKING!" In any case, the granularity of the system...

There's a difference between encyclopedic elements and rules procedures that is important. The stats for a bulette are a set of numbers I feed into a system that I already know and have understood. A sub-system is something that I have to learn and understand to use it.

I'm actually really bad at that. I'm fine with winging something by using a simplistic solution; but I hate following a more complex procedure not really knowing if I actually understand what I'm doing. (That's why doing my tax declaration is such a nightmare to me.)

Well, as soon as a subsystem is needed, I'll have to look it up, read and understand it - at least if I want to use it. Either I have to do it preparing a session (investing my time), or, if I didn't know it would come up, I would have to halt the session to read up on it. To me, this seems like...

Of course you couldn't replicate that experience with just some theatre of the mind and a basic resolution system; if you want a system that gives you highly detailed resolutions of epic battles, that is what you want and you should use a system that provides it. That's perfectly fine. But that...

Okay, first of all sorry for the snark regarding knowing other systems than D&D. It's just that I feel that D&D is particularly bad at the whole "core resolution mechanism" thing; there wasn't one until 3rd edition, and I feel that until this day, it never really got the hang of it as well as a...

What you seem to be missing here is the possibility of playing with a ruleset that has sensible, broad rules that basically tell you "If there's no procedure and you feel that a roll ought to be made, just take the stat/skill that seems most fitting, assign a modifier according to a standard...

I think this one is really sweet ... it's a little self-referential, the whole "we're having a long rest" scene really only makes sense if you already know that D&D is supposed to be about action adventures and that this is what happens in between, but really, who doesn't know? It's just nice to...

And then there's this meme along the lines of: (Person who didn't read Frankenstein): "Frankenstein's the Monster!" (Person who read Frankenstein): "Frankenstein's not the Monster!" (Person who understood Frankenstein: "Frankenstein IS the Monster!"

Thanks - I just meant to say that he probably wasn't James Bond in Moonraker ...

Wait a minute ... checking out the preview, and finding: New Material: Kij Johnson & Roger E. Moore Editing: Kij Johnson Now, while I'm pretty sure that it's not THE Roger Moore we're talking about here ... is it THE Kij Johnson, who happens to be a really great fantasy writer? Yep, Wikipedia...

Things like this are really cool because they show that the players actively and communicatively take part in world-building, and what more can you ask for as a GM?

I love that about 13th Age, and it's something that I definitely plan to use in whatever fantasy campaign I start next (sadly, apart from that, 13th Age isn't my thing at all, I hate the hard disconnect between combat and everything else ...).

That's awesome! (though it probably means we'll end up well beyond 100 pages ...).

It's probably a difference in what you're used to, and I admit that I haven't played a whole lot of Dragonbane yet, but I can'tsee why I shouldn't be able to do with it everything that I might be doing with any edition of 5e. It can represent most of its ancestries (and new ones should be easy...

I just have to mention that this runs counter to all my experiences in 38 years of roleplaying. We did chases without dedicated chase rules, swam through underground rivers without dedicated rules for swimming and holding your breath, threw big rocks down on enemies without any rules for how to...

I think there's also a subtle difference between "fit the campaign" and "fit the setting". Your campaign can be about a bunch of characters that are totally ouf of place in the campaign setting, and you'll still be fine if everyone is on board with it.