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Enforced in whose game? Not yours, I'm quite sure. If in theirs, then, why are you opposed to this?

It only sounds great because it is!

OK, now we reach the true crux of the issue. @FrogReaver'a preferences should be opposed and derided because there's a chance that if they're allowed to be defended and repeated they might become widely popular and it's important to you that only your personal preferences should be accepted as...

Everyone wants games that cater to them. This is normal, and not something to be attacked or questioned. At no point, ever, in the history of the universe, has @FrogReaver said that everyone else has to play their games the same way @FrogReaver prefers. I defy you to find anything anywhere where...

Yes, they have. That is the whole basis of my position. I have seen people say, "Well, I've been gaming since '76, and I can say most people were doing X & Y during Z period." And then someone else will say, "Well I started in '75 and no one I know ever did X during any period. During Z, as far...

This is exactly what I'm talking about. You are deferring to your decades of experience, which is a perfectly natural thing to do. But there are people with similar amounts of experience who will tell you that they have seen different trends and that what they've found to be rare is different...

That sounds a lot like my original point. :cool: We have very limited and self-selected data pools to begin with and, even with the data we do have, the information is often very fuzzy. My overall position on the topic is based on a different set of data -- it's the number of people I see pop...

So, the point is even more extreme then. No one should be allowed to design games that @FrogReaver likes, because if they're allowed to exist there is a chance that people who don't like that style might be forced to play them and endure terrible torment? I ask again, who are these people that...

Who are these people, exactly, and why you are assuming they're sitting at a table with @FrogReaver while he participates in this game, and being subjected to this horrible experience? Because I strongly suspect they exist only in your imagination, and there is no need for you to protect them...

The problem is, there's no good means to measure who is actually running what and how. At best, you might be able to make semi-informed guesses based on what is posted on reddit, EnWorld etc, and what the active posters there claim to do or like. You might draw some data about people who game...

In Ars Magica, stay-at-homes level faster. They just don't get to have as much fun.

Meh. You just wasted a whole five minutes, and it was your choice to push your luck trying to get a bunch of extra skills knowing full well that you were already extremely lucky to have survived two terms as a scout. Edit: to answer your follow-up question, modern versions have much more...

1. The default game setting is the periphery of a crumbling pseudo-Roman Empire, but anything you can do in B/X you can do in ACKS, plus more. Any existing Mystara modules and setting stuff you have will fit in pretty seemlessly, just like it will with many OSR products. 2. IMO, the best bits...

Not to put words in @zakael19's mouth, but I took it to be an assumption that, one way or another, this is what will happen in the general style of play where you are looking to maintain a specific narrative thread, not that it happens in any and every game.

The problem that I, personally, have with this (and which is only a problem because of the style of play I'm generally looking for, and not because it's wrong in any kind of objective sense), is because I feel that it presumes that it is up to the GM to ensure the players have a way to continue...

I bypass all this using my patented Despotic Tyranny First approach.

The old classic. High stats lead to overconfidence, lead to death.

If I know what it is, I will probably call it what it is. If I'm not sure what it is, but am thinking about possibly drinking it, I am likely to ask if it is coke or say something like, "what type of cola is that?" but I will certainly not refer to it as coke unless I have reason to believe it...

What if your preference is to participate in a range of different games where different levels of exceptionalism are appropriate? What if it actually does "depend"? If you'd said in the OP that you only want to hear from people who have a clear preference for a particular level of...

My broad preferences are to mix it up, with maybe a slight lean towards preferring games where they start as mildly exceptional. I also don't really like the "should" phrasing in the thread title. PCs should be suitable for the game being played; the idea that there is any kind of level of...