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Reading the adversaries, I really like the solo designs. They look fun to run.

I don't think my play is transcendent. I'm not a skilled enough actor /roleplayer for that. But I do approach my play with creative...

One might think about this from AW A grotesque is a person—remember fundamentally a person, human, not a monster—whose humanity has...

This is going off into a different set of preferences now, but personally, I'm not a fan of the thought-bubble approach. In a comic...

There are plenty of people in these threads (@robertsconley @Lanefan @Micah Sweet) who have said game designers should not design games...

The other thing explicit constraints in games do is help the whole group understand what is expected of them and also what you will not...

Constraints are a good thing. It's good that we have different games that have different constraints for players and GMs. Its level set...

It's not the number of metrics to track that matters, but the complexity of tracking them. If they work in a very consistent manner...

When I GM, I try to think of things that will be interesting and will prompt the players to action based on the way they have...

I'll have more in the morning, but I do not endorse the idea that lore/setting is story or that all GMs are storytellers.

There is nothing snobbish about sandbox. And I am not framing it as elite. I included what you do as sandbox too because to me, sandbox...

Sure, but because of two factors, I see that as pretty good evidence of "special" hostility that is directed towards narrativism (and...

I'd rather avoid house ruling if I must, but I always apply my own RPG "philosophies" to any games with binary pass/fail mechanics. Most...

This is really interesting. This year we have three different RPGs inspired by D&D 4e: 13th age v 2 (I just got the near-final PDFs a...

One thing that struck me as I was scrolling through both reddit and YouTube: the only game that people seem to feel is being challenged...