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Almost all cornbread is too sweet for me, and I'm not a fan of the degree to which it disintergrates.

At the very least, I don't think that there's any point in continuing in this particular thread.

It does not appear to me that I can properly express my view of a particular position here without it being taken as my expressing my view of the people, and as such I don't think I can usefully continue.

I've already mentioned it, but I think after the mod reaction I'm going to step out of this thread.

Its funny, I'm pretty fond of country gravy on chicken-fried steak, but on biscuits it doesn't do much for me.

Otherwise good GMs have blindspots and bad elements all the time. In particular, this is one a lot of old-school style GMs fall into, and I'm sure at least some of them are excellent in other ways.

If someone has decided to ignore emails on game topics, then they can't care too much about rules decisions in the first place.

I have no idea how you are as a GM. That's a gestalt of a number of factors, most of which can't be seen from a distance. And I haven't said you specifically belittle your players. But I stand by my opinion your position belittles non-GM gamers as a group.

You are either deliberately disregarding my distinction between individuals and groups, or blind to the distinction. In the first case I see no reason to not find your own position insulting. In the second case you're apparently incapable of actually conducting this conversation, since I made...

Which means it behooves the GM to try and even that out; its not an excuse for deciding to do it all himself. We exist in the days of Discord and email. If you want to tell me someone can game regularly but not present his opinion in downtime, that's going to be a hard sell.

I maintain half of the problem with game systems is lack of, or insufficient blindtesting. And sometimes its selective; people who run con games of their system will often learn about it in play, but may very well miss pitfalls in character generation since there's rarely time to mess with that.

A lot of it probably has to do with amount.

Yeah, I've never been a fan of people just deciding to "share smoke" with you. In principal, I'd rather have people toking than drinking (largely because I've spent some significant amount of my life around people who did both and I have pretty pronounced opinions about which I'd rather be...

Sure. Note my line about "want to weigh in"? There are absolutely players who want the GM to do all this, and that's their choice. (Though, note my focus on "as a group"; the fact one player doesn't want to be involved in the discussion doesn't mean the rest are obligated to not want in...

I don't think Battlesuit was the one I'm thinking of because I doubt I own it, but I bought a lot of wargames (especially microgames) back in the day, and it could have been parallel development.

Yeah. As I note, I won't speak of AD&D or the Basic offshoot (as I never played or GMed them), but OD&D was heavily lacking in subsystems outside of combat, and what was there was pretty ad-hoc in apparent design. The early stuff was all "roll a D6 and get X", then the thief comes along and...

Read again. I said he was badmouthing players as a set. I didn't say anything about how he was responding to my position, nor do I care other than to the degree someone misrepresents me. I'll make my position extremely clear here just to avoid any further misunderstanding: I have no reason to...

I think when looking back over the whole run of the character I can't support "awful", but there are definitely problems with them as they were written. I don't think they're minion-only killers, but there's no question that once you hit a boss you're contributing less than other people unless...

As he said, its also a common perception of Hero, and while Hero has some initial engagement needed (learning to count Normal dice and properly engagement with the Speed chart) as he says most of any complexity is upfront in character gen (and really only when powers are involved).

Taking it seriously as proper design is not required to use it as a rotating point for skilled play. Its not like being ad-hoc in design choice has been a rarity throughout most of D&D's history.