I play darts and Scrabble. That's subtraction and addition right there. It's not the the maths that makes me hate doing tax forms, ffs.

Quote from: Bradford C. Walker;1044499Common people won't work for their entertainment. All else being equal, the option that demands the least of their brainmeats to get the same result always wins.

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It's true.

I don't recall ever having this issue with any game I've played/run over the years. Closest thing actually had nothing to do with math, but rather juggling/tracking/creating Aspects at the table and tracking free invokes on each during my Fate campaigns which made the game feel sluggish for its otherwise "light" feel and bogged down play a bit.

Math in and of itself isn't necessarily exciting, but I don't mind using it at all in the pursuit of entertaining play; particularly if the majority of it happens outside of the game. I've never found it to be unnecessary or detrimental, personally; I do find some MECHANICS unnecessary or detrimental themselves, but usually that's in their implementation or knock-on effects resulting rather than because the math/computation involved is anti-"fun" or whatever.