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To use video games as an example, there are "indie" video games of every conceivable style, genre and level of quality. "Indie" doesn't mean anything from a gameplay standpoint. Same with TTRPGs -- but, for some reason, we have decided that "indie" roleplaying games must have x, y and z qualities.

The rest of your post was mostly about combat vs non combat detail and depth. That is a wholly different issue. "Mini games" and "switching modes" allows a game to include elements that are important to play (or at least important to the designers) on their own merits. Forcing games to use the...

"Indie" as a description of what something is, as opposed to how it was made and by whom, has always bugged me -- in music, in games, in film, in fiction, etc... Indie is when people manage to create it without the benefit of a big corporation. It has nothing to do with genre.

Why not?

Not yet, but I certainly hope to:

(as seen on Facebook) Who in the WORLD would name a kids' sports team the WARHAWKS? I can't even...

Delvers are, in a word, completely insane. Normal people would be very nervous around them, even if they are a good source of revenue.

Beggars can't be choosers.

I didn't think so, but after a quick google I think I must have at least skimmed through it at some point.

Aaaand how.

I know "balance" is not a huge issue with Shadowdark, but even so: has anyone done the math and/or broken down the examples so that we have a sense of what the capabilities of and numbers are across levels for SD classes? Even if loose, it would help with my project.

Ok. I definitely feel like I am being trolled now, or maybe I accidentally slipped into a parallel universe where words have different meanings.

And the contemporary fantasy connection?

i am struggling to understand how Barsoom is "contemporary fantasy." It would work for portal fantasy, of course, but...

That is harder in a D&D setting, I think.

Just a place holdr since I need to run: I am working up a tiered career system as an alternate leveling system in Shadowdark (vaguely inspired by WHFRP and SotDL) and am curious what folks would include in the Ratcatcher to Bounty Hunter type career chains for the major class categories.

I think that is why most contemporary fantasy leans into either a secret world, or one that is isolated from most of society. Full integration of high magic throughout human history demands acknowledgement in historical events.

Right, but that wasn't was was posited in the post I quoted. For example, Bright makes no sense with orcs and elves and dragons, but history is essentially the same (as far as we know).