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Rae Nedjadi (Apocalypse Keys, Once More into the Void, Our Haunt, upcoming Tomb Raider games) Creates emotionally immersive games that...

Some of it depends on mindset. There are some "rules lite" systems that are really just trying to pare down the "traditional" RPG...

I promise you target numbers are not lying in wait, ready to steal all evocative descriptions or engagement with the fiction. Unless...

So I have a particular brand of ‘story now’ play that I approach most of my games with. Assuming the person would actually find that...

While I think there are many "paper cuts" that can make a bad GM or player, the overwhelming factor that overrides everything else is...

I'm not entirely sure I understand what you mean by scale here. In many (if not most, honestly) games combat is basically a...

There are definitely things that I think improve the play experience that RPGs outside of DnD do/have done. On point 9: Dead Turns...

I guarantee there's an indie out there which is, but my knowledge of the indie sphere is insufficient to identify if specifically...

Would you consider chess to be a tactical game? It does require a lot of thinking about positioning, so it counts at least in my book.

I would argue that having to make guesses, educated or not severely reduces the tacticality, but that's another tangent. What the...

I mean, paying a more-or-less unbroken attention to the game state while keeping in mind at least most of the rules for 3-4 hours is...

While yes, I will broadly enjoy a bad game with good people, I find the idea of using an RPG as a hangout activity just utterly bizarre...

The issue with "tactical" RPGs is that they are almost always reliant on player options. The end result is that there's no tactics...