What’s kind of funny is how familiar this discussion is. It wasn’t that long ago that folks were like “jeez, I really have mixed feelings about the structural assumptions rpgs make that they need to represent wargame-like values.” So many lengthy late-night conversations amongst industry notables at the mid-90s Gencons were exactly this subject.

Kind of excites me to think about this stuff in 20 years, when the cool kids scoff at all those years when every RPG seemed to be built entirely out of quotes from genre fiction.