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Yeah, that was true for me c1976 or so. Been there, done that.

Fair, TB2e for instance has a lot of emphasis on gear and supplies. Shopping is thus high stakes. I'd note that in TB2e you're lucky if...

Yeah, as a bit of a tangent, one of the things I like best about running low myth kind of Story Now is that there are no bottlenecks of...

My home games (we reverted to 3.5e because I have all the toys and like the way we play it…) are definitely player-influenced, in a...

As a side validation to this, my Stonetop game had 3 different sets of "stuff" going on in 3 different geographic regions of the area...

Yes, I know. That posts says nothing about "allowing" or "stopping" anything. Correct. That's a statement about what I look for and...

I'm not sure which way you're going here, and so haven't worked out what the "this" is. My own sense is that Apocalypse World is...

Yeah, although IME games can start to implode when there's been a bit too much backstabbing. We did do one 'evil campaign' years ago...

That's really not the case. Take the typical locked door. It's pretty rare that failing to pick the lock would, in and of itself, cause...

Right, I'm not really super critical of trad play. @Gilladian ran a couple of 5e campaigns for us that I would call 'pretty trad'...

Yes, some things are not all that different, BUT. There's always that 'but'... ;) The context is pretty different. There's a much...

Eh, I think my experience is that you don't need a ton of filler. Narrativist games also tend to be pretty strong on thematic coherence...

I'm not shifting anything. The authority that we're talking about... my preference for keeping the game moving and focused... is...

If I do a "you're all strangers" it would be some dangerous situation they get thrown into. A shipwreck, invading army, they've been...

I explicitly frame my campaign starts such that the characters generally already know each other and have been working together for a...