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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9430556" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Being perfectly honest...exactly the kinds of rules changes you proposed in the OP, and many of the other proposed changes in this thread. They sound like absolutely the antithesis of a fun, entertaining evening; they turn even the smallest acts into the worst sort of bean-counting.I want to have a relatively fun time being a heroic adventurer who fights evil princesses and rescues beautiful dragons, who does the right things for the right reasons, who shows mercy because it is both morally upstanding and actually worth doing.Your "knock someone unconscious, it lasts for up to 24 seconds" rule, for example, has just made taking prisoners alive against their will essentially impossible. It has made it so every session where I advocate for a nonlethal approach to dealing with combatants, I am actively being a detriment to everyone in the group, including myself.Such ill-considered efforts, pursued out of an aesthetic or meta-aesthetic desire for the rules to look and feel nice rather than for the rules to perform well as a fantasy roleplaying game experience, are the bane of far too many games today.That's what annoys me about rules nine times out of ten. When they prize on-the-page prettiness or geometry or so-called "realism" (even though "realism" and reality often do not intersect...) ahead of being well-structured, effective rules that achieve the designer's intent for the gameplay experience.</blockquote>

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