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I want a RPG to be game, in the sense that the participants can do thing - make "moves" - that change the circumstances of play for...

What makes D&D not a "toolbox", in my view, is not the particular colour found in the rulebook - that can fairly easily be painted over...

Unironically yes, maybe not make the BBEG everyone's parent/family since some players just want their parent/family as just...

Are you using mechanics and system interchangeably here? If so, there is the problem. System includes ethos & principles (which...

Are you able to link me to one or more of those earlier posts? What pushback did I give you?

My personal view is that Daggerheart will most likely exist in the same liminal space as Cortex Heroic/Prime, Dune 2d20, D&D 4e and to a...

"Narrativist" doesn't - at least in the usage stipulated by the person who coined it - label any features at all. It labels a goal of...

That wasn't what I heard him say, or what @pemerton stated. The Big Model is a general model of RPG play in any given moment of play...

Yes and no... I started running 4e for @Gilladian and primarily a couple of other people. 2 of those three played a LOT of 3.5e (and...

And here's where I think things can be discussed. The later, a situation in which there's one simple obvious morally correct answer...

"Valid" is not the write word. GNS is a descriptive analysis, not a normative one. Edwards' view is that the goal of "getting the...

Edwards expressed doubt that it is an aesthetic aim of play. As it happens, I don't agree with him.

"The Big Model" is a general model of the structure and processes of RPG play in any given moment of play. The model posits that, to...

Right. On your proposed graph Burning Wheel will be related to the RQ/RM approach to design (long skill lists, derived attributes...

Right. While my evolutionary biology education is probably only a tiny bit better than yours (I had to take college-level biology at...