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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HaroldTheHobbit" data-source="post: 8968804" data-attributes="member: 7031679">Let me talk about this from a subjective perspective instead.Me and my table of players are old. We enjoy traditionalist games where we focus on roleplaying, the social pillar, intrigue, conspiracies etc. But we also enjoy good old-fashioned combat encounters now and then, so that's a component in our gaming, preferably played out on a grid.In a typical combat encounter, a player might say "I'm gonna run around that car and shiv the dude hiding behind it". The player then count squares to see if he got enough movement, moves his token, and it's time to roll dice. This is a gaming situation many of us recognize. Now, if one applied your suggestion about the characters moving like chess queens instead, I would have to reply to the player "sorry, your character Bob the Bruiser can only move in straight lines, so you can't turn right to reach the hiding baddie". Bobs player would most probably tell me to feck off. Now, would it be possible to use chess queen movement rules? Shure. Would it be fun? Possibly, even though I personally doubt it. Would it hinder suspension of disbelief for players used to traditional style grid based movement and lessen their fun? Absolutely, at least for the gamers at my table. Yes, traditional grid based movement and combat is just a tiny bit more anchored in simulationist gaming than chess queen movement would be. And finicky simulationist aspirations most of us old folks got tired of in the eighties. But I don't really see what further arbitrary combat restrictions would add to a game, more that making it more gamey and removing parts of the game - such as traditional grid based movement rules - that has become transparent to many of us and thereby letting us focus on the parts of the game that we enjoy.If you and your friends find fun in putting further arbitrary restrictions, such as chess queen movement, on your gaming - good for you! But I can't see what good or fun it would add to my table.</blockquote>

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