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My first was definitely OD&D; a lot of really good early games I was involved in were in Champions or RuneQuest, but my memory is such that specifics are long gone (these were likely 40 or more years ago). The favority campaign I ran was a hybrid Mekton II/Cyberpunk 2020 game that was a...

I'd say there's no general answer for that. What will catch one person's attention will be of no concern to another. And there are some people who aren't going to really care about the setting lore in general.

That was more or less what happened with most of the ones I acquired recently. I had them on my wishlist, but I just couldn't justify buying them with my backlog. And then their prices dropped (in at least one case, to a quarter of its normal value, one a game of at least moderate price), and...

There's a few that do more odd things (there's more than six after all), but they do at least have the advantage there's standardization so you don't have the "What one-off penalty does this particular spell effect/monster special ability do?"

There were some virtues to be found there at one time, but not enough to convince me to make the jump in, and then, well, what happened happened.

If you don't think what the game does here matters as much to many people as what the world avowedly says should happen, I'm afraid I have to disabuse you. There's a constant refrain in many places how out of sync a set of game elements is to the game fiction for the world involved. I have...

Only reason I mentioned it was that at least some of the people who mandate it seem to think it should be done universally.

In my case its a case of my not liking accumulating more backlog. I know this is a piker compared to some, but I've got something like ten games that I've not done more than go "That looks cool! I have to get to that."

Sure. I'm in a PF2e game right now, and no one would expect the GM to do all the bookkeeping. Admittedly, we're using Hero Lab Online which provides relatively easy management, but there's nothing in Conditions that a note pad couldn't handle. And for those who suggest that's too onerous...

Looking at the new version of the poll, I was never a Twitter user in the first place.

I agree starting with the higher levels. As to the other--that works okay for a character or two, but when it applies to a whole six character group it looks--odd--usually.

And it would help if that then doesn't seem at odds with the default advancement rate.

Which was particularly funny since once you read the game and looked at the various racial groups, an awful lot of them looked like variant elves.

Yes, but it still looks odd when all the "veterans of the recent war" in the PC party are level 1 when your game has a range of levels from 1 to 20 and the experience system doesn't take forever to level. You could pull this off to a limited degree in OD&D because no one mostly took levels...

Of course the usual problem regarding that concept in D&D is the resistance to starting characters above first level. You can potentially make it work in systems or varients with slow and compressed advancement, but in most D&D-alikes it looks odd that those veterans would all still be first level.

I've got to say I'd find the expectation I track all conditions at both ends something I'd not want to do. If players want to play in a game with some crunch, handling the parts applying to their characters is their job, not mine. This, of course, is a common thing now, but I've never taken...

It can properly emulate the potential confusion and mistakes in position that can happen in-game, but I'm not sure that's such a universal benefit to justify it.

I'd suggest that's not been true with something as structurally specific as D&D is in spots for a long time if ever.

There were probably a pretty fair number of ancient and medieval mercenaries who had, by the standards of the time, decent family lives when they could go back to live it. It just happened to be their skill set was mostly about fighting (probably from having been in a military during a time...

I understand there can be all kinds of reasons for doing that, but I do have to suggest if that's your view there's a certain element of using a wrench for a hammer, then.