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Though I should note some degree of that well predates that. Though not entirely freeform (they're binned in categories) the specifics of what Disadvantages are and some skills goes all the way back to the Hero System, and I don't know that most people would consider that a narrative game even...

Its certainly an issue, though how related is hard to tell. I do tend to think there's probably a higher ratio of people who dislike negative conditions imposed on their characters that frustrate actions (which, depending on the specifics, can include most of what you mention) among people who...

That was largely my point. My personal feeling is that the two pieces of string don't really meet in the middle, but how much that matters depends on the perspective of the players involved.

No, but its not something you can ignore potentially being a thing. You won't even necessarily know in advance if you've mostly played games with limited tactical buy-in. Heck, they may not know if that's been what you've run in the past.

The question always is, do they? That's always the issue with that sort of thing; in games where the game actually rewards tactical thinking, do the people who don't not care (in which case, as you say, it doesn't really matter as long as they're still getting things done) or do they notice the...

I wasn't seeing the full URL because, I expect, Malwarebytes was noping me out after looking at a malformed or deceptive one. In any case, all I was getting was a URL failure message associated with that site. Which was double irritating because about half the time I couldn't properly back out...

But then, you have to remember not everyone thinks you can actually fish in both ponds and do justice to either. I'm one of them. I've played plenty of games that did fish in both ponds, and my opinion was that they were more deceptive about one end or the other, whether deliberately or not...

I backed it and didn't regret it, even though I have no idea when I'll end up running SWADE.

There are a few things that can do it in PF2e, but the special attacks in the game tend to be more focused on imposing conditions or action denial than repositioning. Its one of the areas where it distinctly doesn't resemble D&D 4e.

There's a reason there's a term called "monster closets" in an (uncomplimentary) reference to certain common computer game design features.

I think I'm going to be no help and say the new version has some virtues over the old, but the old one will still work (you might occasionally run into problems involving Powers).

I think picking an AP that was specifically trying to capture an old-school megadungeon at least is probably a bad example. Age of Ashes, for all its issues, did not have tiny maps for the most part, and it was the first one out of the gate. AV suffered from a problem that, frankly, a lot of...

Well, obvious I can't make claims with certainty about every one of them; I can only go by the couple I saw in play and the ones I read in any detail, and even the latter has to be taken with a grain of salt by its nature. Actually, sometimes I think you very much shouldn't. If you're trying...

Yeah, there's a considerable difference between "Must have X items with X spacing" and "To get value out of the system you have to have something beyond a featureless plane." (Not that the latter is nonexistant as a thing, but honestly, it not what you usually expect; even most deserts and...

Honestly, my suspicion is that the equivelent of that is the origin for most stews if you go back far enough (just instead of frozen its the leftover cuttings from some other dish).

Are there versions of gumbo that use sweet components as a matter of course? (I'm just curious since most gumbo is off the table for me since I dislike seafood, so I've only really had various that were just chicken and sausage based).

Doubly odd, then. I was seeing it every day, sometimes multiple times back at the beginning of the month. Makes me wonder if there was an OS security update for Windows that staked it.

And over the last few days, it seems to have stopped. Curious.

Though that's always one of those things that turns, in part, on group size and decisiveness.

Its an interesting tact for them to take. Last time I saw a game lean into that was Earthdawn.