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That's a huge assumption. It's incredibly easy to come up with something interesting that is 100% in the fiction. Example: they're in an...

I find this both very surprising and very frustrating, because I know I have said to both of you, multiple times, that the books...

But... but... I thought that there was absolutely no story telling in Sandbox games. Especially no story telling by the DM. How can...

Expense? It was as low-stakes as your typical RPG session!

I mean... saying you can skip past some stuff is decent advice was met with resistance. If that doesn't sum up the thread title...

I found Paragon, in the form of Agon, was interesting, but pretty limited. Our games seemed pretty heavily slanted in favor of the PCs...

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...