There are pen and paper games that require more or less no rules and tend to degrade (is that really appropriate here?) to simple story-telling. Really, your f

There are pen and paper games that require more or less no rules and tend to degrade (is that really appropriate here?) to simple story-telling. Really, your frustration isn't targeting pen and paper games, but might be valid against the pen and paper games _you played_ (double emphasis, since most pen and paper games that are played over a significant amount of time end up implementing in-house rules to adopt to the problems that arise, imo). In other words: You played the wrong system, or the people around you valued rules over fun (usually a system tends to declare that it should be the other way around: Play and fall back to rules if needed).