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Or a game that doesn't have a character skill mechanic. There are lots of those.

I flip the table and toss my knife into the floor between us. The rest works itself out.

Sounds like you would enjoy Monster Hearts 2! No skill lists to interfere with character decisions there!

This seems pretty easy to me. "Cool. What does that look like?" or a dozen other clarifying questions. If they ask why you need to know...

The point of starting with the bare minimum and then layering rules on top isn't to remove things we consider valuble. It's to find out...

While I agree with you that trying to force a game to be player-driven can be disastrous, I disagree that actual player-driven play...

If the mechanics support fun combat* then I enjoy the combat part in and of itself. Making tactical choices, rolling the bones, burning...

Many games give resources on a schedule and then require the GM to frame situations that put pressure on your resources within that...

100% this ^ I see this happen allllllll the time in systems that are not as good at "cycling" as well as they should be (metacurrency...

I have never minded x/day (or long rest) abilities, but I do think it's perhaps more interesting to make them unlimited with a cost or a...

Chess would beg to differ with both of these posts.... ;) Tactics and Strategies have no requirement to be based on resources...

My games always equip the PCs with a SAP (Standard Adventuring Pack). It's contents are deliberately left unlisted, but instead it's...

And still others like to make snide comments about the things people enjoy!

I mean, I have a lot more sympathy for the argument of “passive noticing skills are bad” than “all skills are bad”.

The comparison of the play of games like CoC, Pendragon, Burning Wheel etc to boardgames is quite bizarre. Look at how people actually...