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I prefer the RP part too personally. But technically the G is just as important.

I have seen more than one group try to do this; as has been said,, the game mechanics incentivise it, so by that metric it is understandable. People want to win. It's hardly being a "weirdo".

The problem IMO is, video games have taught players to more or less expect infinite resets. If any problem can't be fixed with a night's sleep, IME many players will literally consider it unfair.

"Works" in what sense? Obviously it depends on your goals. If your goal to allow for anyone that could be available, weighted by in-setting rarity, random generation works just fine.

Sure, there's more to do, and fixing healing is part of it. I like a proportional model myself.

So in a way, modern play is less driven by player action?

Hit points have been around long before "6-8 times a day" was a thing, and you can absolutely use them as part of a sim mechanic provided they are used in tandem with a long-term injury system of some kind. In that case they become mostly stamina points outside of the occasional need for...

Couldn't you create a random encounter table and make tokens for every creature on it?

It's interesting from an academic point of view (which I do appreciate), but I don't see what real value it has now for game designers in 2025. We do have decades more accumulate.

The GM is not mechanics. And the actual mechanics serve to model the world. It's that world, and the PCs interactions with it, that drive the game, not the mechanics themselves.

The GM has a hand in narration of events, creation and depiction of NPCs, and the results of actions, and of course they build the setting. The rules model the setting and how the PCs interact with it mechanically.

Can't tell you wasn't playing in the '70s. I'm telling why I do it now.

That's how I run every game.

And potentially raises other problems.

Whether or not something like what @Lanefan does is a waste of time depends greatly on what your goals are. If you want the effect of verisimilitude and realism in what might be available, you have to allow for the possibility that what is available at any given time isn't exactly what the...

Agreed. To me the answer is...give your setting an economy. And make sure there are multiple ways to spend your gold.

I see the RPG experience as more than a haunted house ride. And I don't do adventure paths.

They were selling them at their booth at Gencon this year. I got lucky.

Awesome! I picked up a set of those at Gencon.

I've never seen that as a strength. Every time I see a live play where the players act like their PCs are in mortal danger when by the rules of the game they're playing I know they're really not, it bugs the heck out if me. Even worse if the players are being manipulated by the mechanics and...