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I've got Scum & Villainy for myself, so I am voting for the rules-lite, mass appeal category to get more people to funnel into the hobby...

Something rules-light, written by people who genuinely enjoy all thee trilogies and th ancillary stuff. It should worry much about...

Whoever does Star Wars next should make it a rules-light game that’s easy to play so it can be used to onboard new gamers to the hobby...

Not a popular answer, but WotC, 5E.2024.

Actually good (interesting) Devil's Bargains are often outside the scope of the score, ideally wrapping in factions or Rivals/Allies and...

I could see how Blades in the Dark (and most Forged in the Dark like Scum & Villainy) could feel like a Writer's Room especially around...

Some folks in this thread should read Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative by Jane Allison. It’s all about ways of...

I'm not sure what you mean by "what player choices or actions are curtailed?" I mean, the most straightforward answer is none. But...

Yeah, its interesting that I'd probably prefer a game with more emphasis on fixed beats like you see in a Firebrands Framework game...

Nearly 16 years ago, Eero Tuovinen wrote this: Here’s how games like Sorcerer, Dogs in the Vineyard, some varieties of Heroquest, The...

There's no "collaborative storytelling" in Sorcerer or Apocalypse World, if played in the way the rulebooks set out. For instance, from...

If I and my friends were shipwrecked on a deserted isle, worked out how to survive, and eventually were able to signal for a rescue, we...

Slugblaster is a good example of a game that creates story but where the player doesn’t create story. Not in any meaningful way, they...

To expand on this: someone (I think it was Ron Edwards) once said that an RPG needs to have some things that are fixed, and some things...

Great questions! I think we spin waaaaay to much over the distinctions here, like between, "...is a story," and, "...is a story...