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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 2411266" data-attributes="member: 5143">It's just just detailed tactical situations that are the problem though.For instance, there were no rules for buying magic items in 2nd Ed.  So, because of that, I argued with my players for hours about how they thought it was dumb that I wouldn't let them buy any.  They said "But it doesn't make any sense!  Are we the only adventurers on the planet?  Where does everyone else sell their magic items to?"There were no rules for things like how much damage acid did (I'm not sure on this specific point, I can't remember 2E all that well anymore), so whenever I'd make up a damage, it would be argued "Acid should eat away my entire arm if it touched me." or "I only touched it for a second, I shouldn't take anywhere near that damage."Every time I had to make a decision, there was arguement by one player or another.  This is having played with a total pool of something like 30 players.  I hated making decisions of any sort, because I knew the game would slow down to a crawl as soon as I did.If I had to make up the amount of time it took for a house to burn down, there was a chance someone would argue that the time was unrealistic.I think what I look for in a game is a system that allows me to simulate as closely as possible without being overly complicated *A* reality.  My friends and I aren't big on narrative.  We don't care about artistic license or anything like that.  If I told one of my players "you miss because it would make sense for the STORY for you to do so" they's complain that it was unfair and I was just making things up.I'm sure my friends would love to have a wuxia type combat as well.  However, they'd want to know how far they could jump, what their chance of hitting was, and how many people they just killed this round, etc.  They just like to know the detail to go with the style.</blockquote>

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