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I used to go to DunDraCon regularly every year, but I haven't done that in 30 years now, and the last time I even went to a local con was was at least a decade ago now. Cons might be a vaguely useful metric, but there's probably a pretty large number of gamers who've never been to a gaming con...

Well, that's another issue; whether houseruling the problem is more--extensive--than a simple houserule. I mean, its an extreme example if you have some problems with D&D style hit points, that's liable to require more than just a simple houserule or two (and honestly, probably hitting another...

I think that can be legitimate, but if you aren't a position to houserule it, that isn't likely to be any easier.

Though most of that runs into the same problem that its more useful for a GM than a player.

Breaking down the problem with them, and possibly helping them do a work-around that isn't dependent on the GM houseruling.

I'm suggesting that for many people talking about problems in a system, bringing up a houserule is an absolutely useless response. Even if you disagree, I'd think you'd understand why.

I'm sure you don't.

And if they don't, as usual, you get stuck living with the problem or trying to find another GM. Which means the problem has stayed a problem.

Yeah, the overdependence on home value as a resource is, to say the least, not ideal, but probably to be expected in a country where home values are as high as they usually are.

Yeah. I did a more elaborate version myself some years ago, but it was more complex than most people wanted to fuss with (and was only really combat relevant). I'm not going to say no one ever went broad, but going tall still seemed to be the attractive path for an awful lot of people...

Which I've mentioned can be legitimate. But its not terribly useless in terms of talking about whether the element in hand is an issue in the game as a whole; this is especially true when the person talking about it is a player, not a GM, and therefor probably has limited say in what houserules...

If you see a significant difference from system to system in how they play, that seems a largely unfalsifiable statement then.

Largely the same. Its just hard for me to see "Does a Discord rather than a forum" being a particular disadvantage from the point of view of the publisher when its what the vast majority of game companies are doing.

I'd say "familiarity" but as you like. If you don't think that's not always a big factor, I don't know what to tell you.

And I simply disagree. If that was true, then the experience would be similar with the same group in different games, and that couldn't be farther from my experience.

Not when people are literally talking about houseruling the topic at hand. Then it might as well be, at least, rules from a different D20 game.

I think in a lot of campaigns its true that tall advancement can be overly attractive in Hero, however, especially since advancement costs in each area are linear. That's why there usually are secondary capping mechanics.

You should see it regularly in any square room, but I guess in a lot of cases its not extremely relevant.

Because a lot of them already use Discords for other things where they've likely never even looked at a forum. Forums have been fading for some years now; Discords have been propagating. One doesn't have to like that (I think Discords only work well with a fairly small number of users, and not...

Its not intended to be charitable.