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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.

That says nothing about what the GMs who use them think, however. Well, see my final comment in the post two up. What GMs think they're doing, and what they're actually doing aren't necessarily the same thing.

I'm not sure that's been true for quite a long time now.

It doesn't help that there's a certain momentum-of-expectations that you have to deal with, and that's immensely stronger with D&D than it is even elsewhere (sometimes D&D's expectation set carries through with people elsewhere, too; back in the days when I was running RuneQuest, I'd...

At the tail end of the Black Friday sale on DTRPG I bought the second editions of Mutant City Blues and Urban Shadows.

I'd bought everything a couple weeks ago (don't remember what the sale was, but there was one on GOG).

Presumably because they assume it suggests the setting is coherent and not generic and shapeless. (Note: at best I have a leg in this camp; usually if I have a fantasy setting that I'm closing off options I'm also adding some, but I still understand the position).

I just hadn't been under the impression that "character positioning in combat" was a thing they value very often. As I said, I'm speaking from nothing but impressions.

Yeah, unfortunate with the way momentum and my acrophobia interact its hard for me to not be looking at the corner (or more commonly, curve) once it kicks in.

I hadn't been under the impression that games at that end were particularly big into tracking position in general, but them not being my jam, I may be unaware of counterexamples.

I certainly read it (I try to do that in general if I'm planning on actually engaging with the thread proper rather than just seeing if anyone's said anything I'm going to respond to), but I'm not 100% sure I understand your question there; is it "How do you prepare and present maps for such an...

Yeah. I'm not a motorcycle rider but I'm prone to doing that and I very much know its not what you want to do intellectually.

Well, and just how much engagement you feel in the combat part of the game. If someone just finds combat a thing to get resolved to get onto the next thing, rather than an important part of the game element (or doesn't care much about the game element in the first place) its likely to just feel...

My personal observation long since was nothing will destroy your ability to take curves properly like your acrophobia apparently extending to angular momentum.

Oh, they probably have. They just likely have come to the wrong answer.

I just don't think one of the two alone represents the variety of things you can do besides simple trauma.