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Though I have to note some kinds of mechanical focus don't exist until certain periods. Everything has to be done the first time at some point, and it didn't all happen at once.

Its probably more visible to me because I'm an old fart and remember when I started seeing things like the two you referred to above. Can see that too, though I think I'd seen degree-of-success-and-failure well before PbtA came along. But still of comparatively recent vintage.

We have those locally, but they're frequently closed.

Yeah, that's annoying. I don't need to go through a checker when I'm buying five things.

I think your first reaction here suggests you've gotten confused which thread you're in (I realize there's a lot of overlapping topic there).

I'm going by third party descriptions, but wouldn't you consider Malice and heroic resources modern-ish at least?

I think both of those are tactical, and as you note can exist independently. A Hero System character without any special buy-in has access to a lot of baked-in manuevers in the game that supply some serious tactical options that can change how things play out notably; there are additional...

Recruitement stories are not particularly common in fiction in general, but when I've seen it in film, the first meeting is still in that back room of the bar. That's a big part of the gig, I think; in most fiction if you have anything resembling a PC group, showing how they got together is not...

There's a large old tradition of crooks gathering in the back room at a bar in film; I don't know I've seen an SF take on it, but then, there's few SF takes on what would consider freelance troublemakers anyway. When there is, its usually a group that's already together and often in a...

Its not hard edged by nature, I think. As I said, I find a lot of desire for automation overkill (I handled this stuff manually face to face, what makes it suddenly harder over the Net)?), but then, that doesn't answer the question whether it wouldn't be desirable having some things automated...

I'm surprised he accepted it even as an in-game event, then.

Either a naturalistic or passive-aggressive way of addressing that kind of problem, depending on your POV (or, I suppose, both).

I think that model also survives because its relatively era-agnostic; at least once you have community gatherings significantly bigger than dispersed agricultural communities, some kind of public house is present all the way from ancient cities to most SF settings. How relevant they are to the...

Yes. Because as I said, I know of at least two cases where that was true. Extra was used to pay for, well, extras or to set up the next product. One of them has produced at least four games so far at this model. He's not a big player, but it seems to work for him. I'll give you that its...

This seems to be assuming a considerable more "responsibility" than has been my experience with the (admittedly singular) VTT I've used, which has required me to deal with setup twice in the last 15 years and never again. Needing to do more than that seems to suggest a more fussy VTT than is at...

Though I no longer do so, my first use of Maptool was entirely local for at least a couple years.

I know, if you'll note I'm not sure as you get farther downt he food chain that premise is particularly true. I certainly know two cases where it wasn't, and I suspect there's many more. When you get to big players, or well known medium-sized ones it may be moreso.

That's pretty much where I am on it; all I really want usually is the sort of thing you have in 1 (as long as a die roller is possible, and even that's not strictly necessary).

I mean there has to be some rest-state at the start of the campaign.

I still say this assumes the rules book content needs to be baked into the VTT for the latter to be useful/useable, which is a kind of odd idea to me. But then, as I've said, a lot of people seem to demand more automation from their VTTs than I see as at all necessary.