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I think it's a huge mistake to cast GM Moves as just what GMs do. I know that a lot of us kind of intuitively picked up scene framing...

Rand al'Thor and Luke Skywalker are just about the worst zero to hero examples one could come up with. They are good at just about...

Rand al'Thor was NEVER normal. Rand just thought he was normal. Rand's story arc is about figuring out just how not normal in any...

I think advancement is overvalued, especially outside of D&D and its ilk. Most characters in fiction do not get "better" all the time...

This I would tend to agree with, albeit it varies a bit depending on the campaign/game. But I generally want highly competent...

I really would like to second that, but with a big caveat. I think you here might be assuming the PCs success as the "goal of the game"...

I notice that Stonetop states that the setting book is intended for GM rather than players. It seems that there is going to be fiction...

I think it is more common in modern (post 1970s) epic fantasy for characters to start out as "normal" and grow into power. Rand al'Thor...

(I think you have missed the context, they are i a long subtread that as far as I could gather from quickly skimming it now tries to...

As a player and GM, I'm much more partial to the latter, largely because I have experienced so many times where we play to get to the...

Any game, wherever it's discussed, ought to be discussed within the context of its own design. Taking out pieces of a game design and...

I wanted to take a moment to show why it's important to look things through the prism of a game's intended GM and player roles when...

No one is trying to get you or anyone else to change their preferences. We just want you to not be so careless in how describe play you...

Its like my attempt when reviewing things to ask "Does this item seem to do what it sets out to do well?" rather than "Do I like what...

No, I think that's perfectly legitimate, but at some point you need to be aware that, if you have idiosyncratic wants, that's not going...