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I love Crawford's work, including his new book. The Ai art thing isn't a deal breaker for me.

They are some of my very favorite games!

Certainly Kevin Crawford is getting some mileage out of it with his X without Number series of RPGs.

I'd like to see other games grow without D&D "commercially capsizing", myself. It's not a zero-sum game in that manner.

Yea, I'm much more concerned about if a game "hits its mark" more than "what mark is it trying to hit". I love "Shadow of the Demon...

Depends on the playstyle I'm running. More OSR style: In combat, they wouldn't notice, unless the player makes a specific declaration...

I'd argue that's a pretty shallow way to look at "gamism" (a term I'm frankly pretty suspicious of in both the GNS and GDS senses). See...

I think a lot of us take it as a given that if you're playing a different game, then your "primary mode of play" will probably change...

Ohhh, yes it is. Particularly 5e. Heck, a couple of weeks ago there was a post titled something like “Are we too mean to D&D on this...

First, I’m not claiming to be non-confrontational. I don’t mind if the discussion gets a bit heated at times. It’s part of what to...

When I talk about normative standards of discussion I'm not talking about judgement. I'm talking about erasure when it comes to broad...

I tried to be quite clear in my recent response to @EzekielRaiden, and I feel that @Bedrockgames has done the same in his comments, that...

Yeah, I’m aware that the preponderance of 5e leveling has switched to GM fiat / milestone. Been there, done that. I’m just saying that...

@SableWyvern I think where many of us bristle is with the idea that the GM having exclusive ownership of the setting and players having...

For what it's worth, I think setting creation and scene framing are pretty different things. For instance, setting creation is normally...