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I work wih a lot of stock controllers and production schedulers. If they
occasionally fumbled at ordinary scheduling work we would all experience
stock outs and overstocks. We do. Thus... all stock controllers are absolute
nincompoops who have a level of skill that means that none of them can make a
living - nonsense.
Are Robin Laws or Greg Stafford less then 1W games designers because there are a few flaws in some of their games?
Do most countries have health and safety type laws because basic competence it not generally enough to avoid occasional outbreaks of salmonella poisoning, industrial accidents, horrible food in restaurants, etc etc.
My point is that HW is not a simulation of Glorantha, but a simulation of Heroic fiction set in Glorantha. The results are to provide narrative tension and excitement, not to calculate the death rate from undercooked zebra burgers stored in Bobs Bisonburgers basement for three days.
Keith N
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