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Message: <blockquote data-quote="knasser" data-source="post: 6958429" data-attributes="member: 65151">All of the things you listed except downtime. There can be downtime but that's easily handled in any system. You just say "Three weeks later..." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Yes, a story I run can have a lot of politicking, role-playing, social maneouvering and investigation. Very often the players will try to manipulate people into being where they want or doing what they want, they will seek out allies to help them defeat particular threats. When a combat happens, it's often semi-planned out by the players. If they know that the baron is their enemy, they're not going to march up to his castle and barge in the front door - my players would think that the height of stupidity. They're going to try and lure him to a ball or find out when he's riding out in his carriage, etc. So you see whilst I can do a lot to tweak how an encounter will play out, the game leans substantially towards low numbers of encounters and I'm also expecting it to lean towards solos more than I'm starting to get the impression some people's games do as well. Not saying dungeon crawls wont or don't happen - my players are currently tolerantly following an obvious rail-road, but I got their buy in with that because it's a new campaign in a new system and they know I need time to build up the setting and a roster of NPCs and guide them into the world I'm building. However, long term I expect them to revert to seeing combat as a means to an end rather than an end itself. I.e. if it can be side-stepped or circumstances tweaked to shift the odds wildly in their favour, they're going to do it. And why wouldn't they?I want something that roughly equates to D&D default in terms of magic prevalence and power. My setting is North European Medieval for the most part, with magic being known, practiced but not routine. Earthdawn might be interesting. Ars Magica I like but it's not good for mundanes.There was a game I got a long time back which I never ran called Iron Heroes. I don't know how well it plays but it had interesting ideas and classes. It was a very low magic setting, though.</blockquote>

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