Solasta is one I have never heard of. Apparently the engine and modding tools are better than their release (story, npcs, etc.) That's usually the inverse w games. store.steampowered.com/app/1…

I can’t speak for others but my desire for robust rules has less to do with competitive and PvP play and more a desire for verisimilitude and agency. As a player, I don’t want the GM to make it up as he goes along and I don’t want no prep improvisation. I as a player want a game world with knowable rules and fixed canon so that I can appreciate its existence as a “real” secondary world. I believe agency is not really possible when it’s left to GM fiat and GM improvisation to decide. I wrote all of Arbiter of Worlds about this. It is my belief that robust rules in an objective world are most conducive to flourishing player agency, immersion, and if desired competition and PvP. The downside is they require more investment in learning and (for the GM) prep so they are not for everyone. But I personally don’t like playing with no prep role light GMs. ACKS is designed for what I want to play, not for what is easiest to GM, or most empowering to the GM.

Monday. Figured somebody out there might need to hear this. #TINAGDTBAP 👍🏼