Controversial posts made by Ide

Does the Pope eat fish on Friday?

I guess what I'm about to say makes me the bastard of Charles Murray and Alan Bloom, much to my dismay. 'Fun' as a metric of success is about as useful as saying your lunch was 'successful' because you had 'fun' eating dessert. I have fun watching Nate Diaz videos on Youtube, but nobody really cares about my personal fun watching Youtube, and nobody should. A game is successful when it meets objective critera of success, like size, popularity, breaking new ground in the genre, and high technical and creative standards. If you are having fun on a game, that game is not necessarily successful. It's just... 'fun'. /rant

I was thinking about that yesterday @Arkandel when I was reading the Eternal Crusade wiki and they mentioned their 'dramatic time' (I think the gist is: illogical travel is OK as long as you're not running around with armies), which is functional but not interesting to me game mechanics wise.

So, could a kind of monthly travel budget system work, where every PC gets x number of travel points every RL month, and you can spend those as you see fit, but obviously traveling greater distances costs more points.