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They may be wrongity-wrong, with wrong sauce, but the snarkiness doesn't help. The snark may feel good. You may feel they "deserve" it. But it usually acts against your own interests. It will, in all likelihood, be an impediment to their accepting their error. This bit is key: if you...

Now. Didn't start that way out of the gate, though.

I should add - this is for a game in which positioning matters, like D&D with its dependency on range in 5' increments. If I'm playing a Fate variant, that only cares about zones? Don't need a map there.

Same here. My players can use paper sheets and real dice, if need be. But having a shared idea of who is where is necessary.

Who decided that a game was "meant to have arguments", and how did they make that determination? Well, when you can clearly tell us what those effects were, and cite sample sizes and such, then get back to us. Weird. My example used a whole whopping two minions. And I set that up before...

I believe you would still have the "correlation does not imply causation" issue to contend with there. If we accept that our culture justifies mass slaughter to itself, one still has to establish that the game is used for that same justification, and that the game's justification then causes...

Yeah. Back in the days of the FASERIP Marvel Super Heroes game, I had a character whose primary powers were shrinking, density control, and flight. Ten ton, bullet sized, and flying at about the speed of sound.... Punching holes in vehicle engine blocks or villain gear was a major passtime for him.

The vague physical/legal/moral stance of the statement is a feature, not a bug.

Ever? Right, so let us be specific, hm, and see the failure? "Those who do not dump toxic chemicals in municipal drinking water are in no position to tell those who do, that it cannot be done."

Real space combat, or space combat where we have no concerns about fuel/weight/delta-v? In the real world, armor is too heavy, and your winning projectiles will be lug nuts moving at orbital speeds...

Yes. The minions were working for Gastlagast the Devil-Giant, who resides at the Department of Motor Vehicles. I am not, in this, representing a culture of people being overrun by colonizers.

In my example, I presented minions as specific individuals, working for an individual at an implied governmental bureaucracy. You gotta stretch like Reed Richards to position my example to be colonialist. It is perhaps slightly comically anti-government. Moral implications cannot be assessed...

One wonders where you think one's knuckles are....

Look, last session the kobold delivered Gastlagast's insult, and the final moment of the evening was Cronut popping the kobold's head like a grape, bellowing, "Enough banter! I'm going down to the DMV tomorrow to wring an apology from that devil-spawn!" I have a week to put together a cool...

I don't think I've spoken about minion mechanics in this thread before. I could see a gamist perspective on them. But, for me, that would be in the sense of making game align with overall desired narrative feel of the scene. The time when you use an ogre-minion is the moment when Cronut the...

Spoken like someone who doesn't play dice-pool based games much. Edit to add: you can't even cleanly roll damage for a fireball or lightning bolt with only 3-4 standard polyhedral sets.

Only if your goal is to strictly simulate the physicality of the ogre (and other monsters). If you are trying to represent the narrative role of the ogre, then it can have different representations depending on the narrative state in which you encounter it. I suggest to you that the moment...

So, base-12 for money because 12 is evenly divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 which is really handy when you may be making change by physically cutting coins into bits... But that does bring up the thought that RPGs are missing out on that goodness - our systems are so big on "make number big" that I...

I know. That was the area of research of my department chairman in grad school. Which sounds great.. until you try to figure out who is to be held responsible when they get it wrong....

Cypher system can do it, but cinematic action isn't its strong suit. Moreover, I don't know of a published or common hack that specifically sets you up for the genre - most of them lean a little more fantastical. Same thing with Cortex Prime. Cortex can do a fine heist genre (see the out of...