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Cromulent prose, nicely evocative. Anyway, this is a good point. I make another point that goes with it but is slightly different. That...

Here's a little story I just wrote: The child walked through the park, and came to an embankment. She thought it would be fun to roll...

I mean Dolmenwood is a pretty darn incoherent/implausible setting but an amazing sandbox! It’s full of magical mushroom faeries, doors...

I think you would be amply rewarded by actually playing something like Dungeon World or better yet Apocalypse World, with some people...

OK, my list of questions about the Hardholder was a pretty superficial description in the sense that it didn't delve into the rest of...

This to me is where the real differences lay. Not in how plausible things are, but in the objective of play. That sandboxes present...

Well, it IS an interesting question! WHY any particular setting? WHY any particular decision as to what is there or how it would...

I rolled some dice. I was simulating my own brain, and that's what came out. It is simulation, so it MUST mean something, right?

I'm not so sure about that... I think there's a fairly significant element of deliberate and 'eyes open' kind of design in many...

Why can’t you just say “In a living world sandbox, the setting is the priority, and that’s a good thing”?

Dude. Did you seriously turn to "hit points" for an example of a simulationist model? Hit points? Solid joke. 9/10. You almost...

At the table the kayfabe where we do not acknowledge the real world causes of why our characters are acting the way they are or why the...

I didn’t think AW’s designs were particularly germaine to this specific BITD focused question/discussion so I simply said “other PBTAs...

Sometimes people will be too scared to kill someone, sometimes they won't be. Hmm. If only there was some way to resolve such...

Human beings are a murderous lot. Some fear murder, and often don't commit it. Others overcome their fears. A few have no fear at all...