Recent content by Fenris-77

A moment of silence for out humour impaired brother.

You're a warhorse lifting subsytem!

Some things are both unfortunate and inevitable. History is a harsh mistress.

That caveat is almost never as complete as you make it sound. It's far more about ignoring edge cases that make for bad play than it is about wholesale ignoring of the rules on a regular basis (which no game really advocates for).

The rules, as their core concern, determine how the characters interact with the setting and how the setting functions.

A sense of ennui perhaps? Lacadasical forestry?

The internet is full of medieval town maps of all descriptions that might serve as inspiration.

My first crack at a village map for publication looked like this: I'd do a small town at the same scale.

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.