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Of course it wasn't a reboot, but rather a continuation. I'm pretty much always in favor of those.

I don't know for sure, but long enough ago that I've gotten the impression that everybody else is already doing it.

I have had a real hard time unlearning the two spaces.

The Star Wars comics put out since the Disney buy have been pretty well-received I thought.

The next time I run FASERIP, it'll be Marvel circa 1987-1993, as intended.

My claims are always subjective. If my rhetoric suggested otherwise, I apologize.

I've never had a player decide to portray an ability score in a way that made no sense to me, so I don't know what to tell you. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with a "surprising" interpretation in yours or anyone else's game, but in my game it has to make sense to me. I've had folks...

Precedent. One you make the call, it becomes a rule for that circumstance. Like science. For consistency you have to write it down.

See, I don't really buy into that. I don't believe the mechanics are the top priority, and nothing else matters all that much so long as they are followed (which is how I read what you're saying here). That was my single biggest issue with D&D 4e; they kept telling you to change the fiction to...

I know there are gamist reasons for encounter rolls. There are diagetic reasons too, and those reasons make sense to me, and I value that more. It's an opinion, not a matter of me being wrong. I just place the game reasons for encounter rolls at a lower priority.

No, the difference is whether or not the mechanic represents something that is real in the setting. I've said it how many times?

The heist genre is a pretty narrow slice of "all media" though, you have to admit.

It's diagetic enough. It represents a real thing in the setting. What did I tell my line was?

Hot take telling everyone who doesn't play RPGs you prefer that they're actually playing wargames.

Not to my mind. Encounter rolls determine the diagetic likelihood of having an encounter in a particular area. Makes sense for the chances of an encounter to go up if split the party and cover more area.

Exactly. I don't want to think in terms of story when I play my PC. They're in the world, and all they know (and all I can fairly act on IMO) is stuff that's also in the world.

I've never played CoC any other way. In my world it's a con game.

That is despicable, but as you say unsurprising.

I like resources that are spent and refreshed in what seems to me to be a realistic manner (more or less), if those resources are intended to model something that exists in our reality. If not (like a magic system), then anything that works and is consistent is fine. Balance is not my main...

It's a beautiful book. I still take it down and use it for reference sometimes.