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To use video games as an example, there are "indie" video games of every conceivable style, genre and level of quality. "Indie" doesn't mean anything from a gameplay standpoint. Same with TTRPGs -- but, for some reason, we have decided that "indie" roleplaying games must have x, y and z qualities.

The rest of your post was mostly about combat vs non combat detail and depth. That is a wholly different issue. "Mini games" and "switching modes" allows a game to include elements that are important to play (or at least important to the designers) on their own merits. Forcing games to use the...

"Indie" as a description of what something is, as opposed to how it was made and by whom, has always bugged me -- in music, in games, in film, in fiction, etc... Indie is when people manage to create it without the benefit of a big corporation. It has nothing to do with genre.

Why not?

Not yet, but I certainly hope to:

(as seen on Facebook) Who in the WORLD would name a kids' sports team the WARHAWKS? I can't even...

Delvers are, in a word, completely insane. Normal people would be very nervous around them, even if they are a good source of revenue.

Beggars can't be choosers.

I didn't think so, but after a quick google I think I must have at least skimmed through it at some point.

Aaaand how.

I know "balance" is not a huge issue with Shadowdark, but even so: has anyone done the math and/or broken down the examples so that we have a sense of what the capabilities of and numbers are across levels for SD classes? Even if loose, it would help with my project.

Ok. I definitely feel like I am being trolled now, or maybe I accidentally slipped into a parallel universe where words have different meanings.

And the contemporary fantasy connection?

i am struggling to understand how Barsoom is "contemporary fantasy." It would work for portal fantasy, of course, but...