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With that I agree! One should not be shy to homebrew a game to be more of their liking. Though of course it is wise to choose a starting...

Sure. Which is why you make sure it supports them as part of adding the homebrew.

Yeah, I wasn't sure if I wanted to agree with that statement or not, because I think homebrewing is good but I agree with the gist of...

I think a 6e would try to fix whatever they feel ails 5e. In my opinion, from a system perspective, I think that's power creep, how they...

Totally agreed, and in the context of that goal and going back to the root of the where the railroad topic turned into this one however...

I would say they are at least sometimes unnecessary for it, at least insofar as any mechanic is necessary. In the same way we could cops...

I don't think an immersed player is a stand-in for a complete authentic personification, rather --- at best --- a mostly complete...

But we DO think this. (At least, I do.) I might arrive at a decision I didn't expect when play started over a particular scenario...

To my mind there is also a question of how reasonable it is to come to a game with a predefined model of everything the character will...

Also, I don't think we can make the assumption that of course all players would be fine with (and even choose) unpleasant outcomes and...

There are some things at play here that go back to where I was with systems as a participant earlier. I bolded the relevant parts (and...

Not pemerton so I can't speak for him, but one difference between 'choosing stuff [that happens]' and 'choosing to do stuff' might...

RPGs are games of shared imagining. The agency of those who participate in the game, therefore, is about how they can shape that shared...

Yeah, agency needs to he looked at based on the specific game in question. Sure, a game like Spire may have more consequences that take...

Design that isn't opinionated has no value