>GM insists on using social mechanics and alignment for social

The dichotomy is dumb. Like anything else in the system, you need both- The rules and the fluff.

>>53678833
You should offer to GM. Then you wouldn't need to come here and bitch.

>>53678833
And now thanks to your intervention the DM is enlightened and has become a better DM because of it.

And they both lived happily ever after.

THE END

>>53678994
Railroading cunt.

>>53678833
>alignment
>social mechanics
What game has both of those?

>>53679054
Early D&D - random encounters made you roll what you meet first and then (if anything) roll on reaction chart, your Alignment (and Charisma modifier) could affect the results. People didn't use this much, because vast majority of the results were "nothing happens" and some of the others were guaranteed party wipe.

>>53679176
I don't think that's what OP meant. Can't imagine using something as barebones as that for two years.

>>53679176
Isn't that just for first impressions, though, with the rest being up to rp?

>>53678833
Maybe you are shitty roleplayer and he is trying to help you, OP?

>>53679243
Yes.

>>53678833
Huh, well, alright. I guess if you lay things out to him he might find it intriguing. Elsewise, he might actually just like using the old system even after you explain role-play to him. What did he say when you brought it up?

>>53679054
the shitty ones that pretend to make a wargame an RPG