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Sure, if you set your expectations low enough! PF1e is a 3.5e clone, not really a separate d20 design, it trades on being 3.5 to a high...

Seriously, they're NPCs, all the 100s of ways we use to judge the competency and reliability of people, to know who to trust are not...

Quite - the only other good d20-era material, and stuff that kept selling even a little past the initial boom was Monte Cook's Arcana...

There were a glut of products, but AFAIK almost none of them were successful. Is there even one such product that got further...

My experience is that generic rules tend to produce bland technically sim-centered play that generally fails to capture what is really...

Wasn't it Edwards who pointed out that narrative and gamist agendas are pretty compatible? And yes, this sort of stakes setting serves...

It was more a comment to something that occurred in another thread where I suggested something and a poster immediately jumped to the...

What if, instead of being a black box, the GM in this case just explicated the risks and rewards? Instead what I see is that typically...

If one chooses to flesh out things P, Q, and R, and chooses not to flesh out things J, K, and L, and only fleshes out things X, Y, and Z...

I'm always very confused about objections to houseruling and tinkering on the basis that things might not work out. So you change...

You missed a step: It's what I wrote + beer + player input = what happens.

Double post

I don't assert that everything will be seen, some may even exist contingent on certain directions of play. However it's designed to be...

A quizmaster/gameshow host is effectively a master of ceremonies. I know a lot of PbtA games use that term in place of GM, but I find it...

My point is, the bandits being 'random' is kind of a fig leaf. I don't know what game it would be where the players create the bandits...