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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9776783" data-attributes="member: 6790260">I think it's perfectly possible to design a game where both concerns can work. It just has to be an active, and rigorously tested, design goal from the beginning that both attrition-focused gameplay and tactics-focused gameplay provide rich, rewarding experiences, with tools for either side to elide out the other if desired. E.g. my "Skirmish" concept; "Skirmishes" are to full combats what group skil checks are to Skill Challenges--that is, a Skirmish is light, fast, and focused on long-term costs, not round-by-round details. Obviously it's not something I've fully designed out, but there's nothing preventing such a structure.Those who favor attrition gameplay would then prefer mostly Skirmishes, with true combats being stuff like "this is a boss battle, every blow matters". Those who favor tactical gameplay would use various bits and bobs that simplify the strategic layer of play--not totally getting rid of it, but reducing it to similarly simple choices with meaningful effects in the layer they prefer to focus on, unless something truly warrants it (like, say, what DW calls "Undertake a Perilous Journey" where you're specifically going into hostile territory and resources/supplies/safe spaces matter a whole bunch).</blockquote>