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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9438242" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Don't mean to add to your backlog, but part of this was quoted and I want to address it.This is flavor that pretty much only causes the following (mechanical) effects:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Punishment because of something either outside of one's control (such as weather) or which is obscure and difficult to predict. I get that this makes it more "realistic", but the vast, vast, vast majority of the time, all it does is make things suck more for the player in question. That's the single biggest reason folks don't want this.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Significant effort invested simply to avoid the aforementioned punishments, without any actual benefit gained. Mechanics that work solely by applying a penalty for failure, but do nothing for success/clever play/etc., are generally not well-liked and often get ignored or downplayed. That's why most "encumbrance" type mechanics fail.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Extreme fiddly-ness. This arises from both of the previous things, but can also just happen on its own. Having to keep in mind a bazillion little effects here and there is often tedious and time-consuming, when players would much rather get to the action. Doubly so when the fiddly stuff feels like a mere distraction if it doesn't really change the result any.</li> </ol>I get it, I really do, you want to have a world that manifestly makes all the real considerations of "using black-powder weapons" or "fighting with blades" or whatever else actually meaningful. That level of detail excites you, gets you pumped, makes you WANT to engage and explore and do all the things. Unfortunately...for a lot of people, including myself, it does exactly the opposite for us. It feels like having to file your taxes just to not get slapped with a nasty penalty or to be merely allowed to do the cool adventurous thing you signed up to do, and then you find out you failed to include supplemental form #238B in triplicate with a blood sample, so now you're paying the Rainy Day Fund penalty.Like...the fact that you can grok how the Warlock would be annoyed by this with a re-skinned eldritch blast shows you get that people can be deeply, deeply annoyed by this kind of stuff. There's just one small leap to make from there: people who want to play Gunslingers very frequently (as in, almost all the time) also feel that annoyed when they find out that suddenly their gun-slinging is useless crap because of bad weather.</blockquote>

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