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When my group played 5E they never ran. When we played AD&D, they did. Superheroes v Heroes.

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All good here. I wanted to clarify that I was not ignoring your contribution to the discussion; I was oblivious. :)

No worries, that wasn't intended to say you should have seen it, much more in the way of apologizing for repeating myself. Sorry if it...

I didn't see your post because I forgot to check for new replies...

Exactly. It's one reason why all this talk of winning and losing and various sports, marathon, or game analogies just fall flat for me...

This comes close to my feelings. Winning and losing in an RPG are mostly down to the mission at hand, but success or failure are usually...

This makes me want to 3D print some compensatory prizes to hand to people who die in my Shadowdark game....

The best analogy I can come up with is that it's like running a marathon. Scores will be taken. There will technically be a "winner"...

I personally have found that open ended nature to be the most useful way to explain the design/structural challenges of the RPG vs...

I tend to compartmentalize the concept like this: A character of mine may "lose" something, like a magic item, a level, or it's "life"...

Years ago I was DMing for two young nephews, and when one of them (9 y.o. at the time) was disappointed about failing a climbing check...

You almost got there. You win, as a player, by having your character achieve their goal/s--this can be kinda fractal, goals can be...

I tend to think "win/lose" is better suited to games with "endings". To me, a RPG is structured to be more "open-ended", so I tend to...

I've done and written a lot using OSE since it was published, and I gotta say that while I really appreciate it for what it does --...