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Well, that's an element of deciding some things take actions that probably don't really need to. That's a case of a process that probably takes three more actions than it should (okay, two, if you're going to charge for movement you are; at worst that's an artifact of most games where stepping...

Different people are going to like different things. The 3-action economy felt like a good process once I got used to it, and I know others who felt the same; among other things it provides the tools for certain tactics and decisions that the more typical standard/move/quick action type...

I was thinking of typical heroic starts in non-superheroic Hero, but the principal is the same.

Well, there's always the case of psychological scar tissue, which has a lot of impacts in human relations in general, and certainly within this hobby, too. If you've developed a sore spot about something, the degree of offense needed regarding it to set you off can become quite low. At the...

Though that doesn't technically have to be true; you can theoretically have lower level boss fights where the boss just doesn't have that much support, so even though there's a relatively low chance of a PC getting a crit, the number of attacks coming in toward the boss compared to the ones...

I respect the attempt to do something different there, but the extreme dissonance between the mechanical focus at one end and the almost free-form approach at the other in Lancer would probably make me nuts.

I suspect their first example was not so much a failure to navigate as a decision to plow on through without care.

Yeah, under some circumstances its impossible to be critical of certain things without some people taking it personally. If you're critical of those things, the best you can do is say you did not intend insult, but if someone still insists on taking that personally, there's no functional way to...

Yeah, that one just adds an additional layer of insult to the problem.

Its mostly only pronounced in level-based games, because people are fixated on starting at 1st level. Point distribution games and others that don't deal with levels are much more likely to at least present a strong option toward initial heroic competence (and some of them even default toward it).

This is always the issue with simpler games: is the level of detail actually adequate for what you're trying to do with it? For many people in many situations the answer is "yes", but the idea its going to be so for everyone in all campaign types sometimes shows a certain tunnel-vision on the...

I think doubling-down is a little different in that it actually confronts a controversy by going "So? Yeah, I said it and if anything I think I understated it." The nonapology is more of "I'm going to do anything other than apologize what I said, but I don't want to take the hit for it." That...

That turns into a guessing game about how long or many continuing Charges you need on the multiform you need to make it useful (and whether the savings at that point seems enough to justify the cost). (unless someone tries to argue it only costs a charge to change, which is such a blatant scam...

I almost mentioned EABA earlier, but thought it was both older at this point and probably too obscure. Though how successfully they've done so can sometimes be debated.

But that you can easily separate the two in many cases these days.

Might be so, but its a common enough one that it doesn't stand out much.

Though that sort of thing also breeds the construct sometimes called the nonapology so people can try and have their cake and eat it too.

One of the reasons I try firmly to keep the phrase "I stand corrected" in my vocabulary.

Its really, really hard for some people. It just feels wrong if you can't step back a bit.

I have to point out that's at best a GM angle solution, however.