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I thought it was pretty clear.

I think that's an interesting idea. There's definitely some cool design space there. It all depends on the execution.

Spire actually assumes a lot more agency for the players in terms of making broad societal changes a potential outcome of their actions. This could happen in other games of course, but mostly not as direct a consequence of the game's design goals as is the case with Spire.

It was a very vague reference to an old Saturday Night Live sketch, not a shot at anyone.

I was joking.

Acting!

I'm starting to see how post count is built. :p

Anything to work against unfounded player expectations is great in my books.

I usually change my trolls, or have more than one type, just to prevent players having to worry about this sort of thing.

The cost of mounts is it's own gate, which works the same it has since the 70's.

Yeah, except that SD doesn't do hirelings, very much on purpose. I mean you can, but the game is designed to work without them. That why, IMO, SD characters are better at 1st than a lot of other OSR type games.

Clearly. :geek:

This is a great example of my point. Also one of the strengths of the YZE system generally - it's very hackable.

Frankly, I don't think there is anything but other kinds of immersion. The experience being described there is so personal and so tied to interior brain stuff that we have no direct conscious access to that I struggle when people try too hard to start categorizing it. Sure, you can explain your...

I don't think that too many mainstream games lean so far into doing one thing that they can't do anything else. Even Alien can be used to a lot of different things in the scifi-horror space.