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The main comment was in the context of advocating for designing to address specific questions rather than, say, cobbling together...

I don't think D&D or Traveller were aimless at all. I do think most 90s era design was. L5R (before 5th edition), Shadowrun, Vampire...

"Creating a fun game" is creating aimlessly, I think. That's not a meaningful goal. And there are a lot of examples of individual...

Hmm. Separate thoughts, first on designers I’d expect any reasonably fair observer to acknowledge as important trailblazers whether or...

I think Masks is a very good example of a game that wouldn't have been created until relatively recently. A superhero game focussed more...

I think of "modern" more as pertaining to a RPG's overall design, rather than its mechanics. To me, a game feels "modern" if (i) it is...

Just to make one more comment on the cutscene mechanic. In the first chapter of Final Fantasy Tactics, you have a scene with your...

It depends on the situation, I think. I much prefer not to have a set “adventure” or “module”. The nature of D&D makes it a bit tricky...

This ^ this is the point I was mostly making. Modern mechanics are about that fact that there are rules being used in new ways to...

I am stating that Burning Wheel and other such games are obscure, not mainstream, and don't do any of the mechanics I suggested as well...

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I don't think I usually consider whether individual mechanics are "modern". I think that's more a quality of broader game design.

I have not read the entire thread, so this might have come up before - but the main thing I consider modern is attempt to reduce...

When I think about intentional design I think about designers having a clear vision of what they want the game to be about, not just...

I actually do consider there to have been an approximate time boundary when what I'd call modern RPG design coalesced from a collection...