Recent content by Fenris-77

That's an interesting ask. My first thought would be Trophy Gold, which I know can handle that range since I wrote a sci-fi version. You'd need to build some gear in though. Into the Odd would also probably work quite well.

That definition doesn't even make sense, sorry. Perhaps your contention here is that RPG rule books only contain the rules to play the game? I think it would have to be. However, this falls apart completely when you look at pretty much any RPG rulebook. There you see sections called sections...

You see how you needed to use 'game' to get to game design? I'd agree there, lots of GM prep isn't game design, it's encounter design, or scenario design, or NPC design, or magic item design. What it's not is playing the game. Prep isn't a carefully defined term, just a catch-all for the work...

This doesn't follow at all. Just because the GM needs to do some stuff to facilitate play does not make that activity play as well. You say you disagree but then conflate those same two ideas yourself. GMs reading and designing for future play is not itself play, nor does it need to be. GM...

I have no idea why people feel this need to insist on the word 'play' here. No one is arguing that DM prep isn't valuable, and a fun way for GMs to engage with the game, but it's not 'playing the game'. We don't need it to be play to validate its importance either, we all know it's important...

So yes, this is true, but by the time SD borrowed it that mechanic had spread to all kinds of games and well outside any basic 5E corral.

Bring you offering here my friend.

See, I think the answer to all three is that game play is the central concern of RPGs. Not to everyone in every instance at all, but generally? Yes. The game is meant to be played. Some people do other things, sure, no problem, but that doesn't change what's true generally, which is what's at...

No, no, no. RPGs are also meant to be played, regardless of what some people may or may not enjoy doing with them. I feel like you're working to defend your own interests, which is unnecessary. I'm not judging anyone's engagement, I'm just saying that the principle that organizes most engagement...

Organizational, maybe? Play is what connects all the parts we're talking about, for most people anyway.

How individual people engage with the hobby is, oddly, pretty unimportant to my point (plus we aren't striving for a definition based on edge cases). Games are indeed meant to be played. Most gamers who are reading RPG books are going to play RPGs, designers design their games to be played, and...

That's interesting. I wouldn't put it like that at all. 'Important' is an idea that's pretty subjective and up to the individual. My point was more that RPGs are games, and games are supposed to be played (that is their specific purpose). From this it follows that all the non-play RPG...

Or the completely unexpected fourth person.

You can disagree all you like. I don't think that the idea that the core telos of games is to be played is even remotely controversial. Nor was this an assault on anyone's enjoyment of the non-play aspects of the hobby like worldbuilding, session prep, or whatever.

What the 'point' of RPGs is. Like in the thread title.