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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.

My best guess is its because of action point denial being a sometimes pretty serious impact in and of itself, and moving a lot of opponents more than 5' can produce that in practice.

I can see the argument. PF2e is one of the few D&D-adjacents I have any interest in, but the condition-hunting does sometimes feel excessive. I still think its better than the Million Special Cases D&D was prone to in the Bad Old Days, but I can understand someone who finds it tiresome. Eh...

My sympathy, @Umran, and I wish you the best in not letting yourself get pulled into grief in advance. I've failed to do so with any of the dogs I've lost.

I've been planning to pick up the main book there. Edit: Hmmm. Apparently that's one of the books not on sale.

I've not used any of them, though I think I understand them in principal. Veils seem to just have some finesse that X-Cards and Lines don't.

Though the degree of moving parts and special-casing in D&D components can make it more than trivial to ignore those settings even if you want to. I like PF2e, but I'd find it a chore to use it for a non-Golarian based setting because there are so many assumptions from that baked into it.

Or, honestly, its long since been solved by the presence of other game systems in the first place. I'm on record as noting that the basic mechanics of a system tell you a fair bit about the kind of settings its going to support properly, and D&D is far from distant from that; its got enough...

Hmmm. That might be worth a read. Is it generalized or aimed at particular systems or kinds of system?

Out of curiosity, would a Veil do when those come up? The reason I ask is that I respect the idea of safety tools, but maaan I can't say but that it would sometimes make it impossible for me to properly plan for some kinds of games if I got an X-Card or after-the-fact Line applied in some...

I'd say some players care about worldbuilding if they do it. Some really don't, except in the broadest sense possible. They're there to either overact, solve puzzles or beat things up, and the specifics of the setting are just not important except to the minimal degree they need to understand...

That's the point. There was no functional way for them to play in those games, because the setting wouldn't work right without those invisible-to-people conventions, and the way they played their characters wouldn't work right with them. The threads just wouldn't meet in the middle.

And you need to recognize that there are players--quite a lot of them IME--who don't want to seriously deal with any setting's lore. And no, not playing with such players is not a functional option for everyone.

Guess what kind of games I was referring to with "high convention"? The point was, they just flat out wouldn't play those genres, even though they didn't work right without those kind of mechanics, because they insisted their characters had to be able to think about those conventions if they...

Though those Simulationists tended to get more than a bit weird when high-convention genres came up, in part because they virtually demanded that you both use the conventions and ignore them in-character, which most of them were really hostile to/incapable of doing.