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There was a thread going around recently about "Did you play AD&D RAW?" and my answer was summarized as, "Well, we tried most of the...

All the Without Number games do great work with survival rules. The newest, Ashes Without Number, is particularly impressive in that...

I think it is important to stay grounded in the reality of the thing and this post is a really good reset to the discussion. One of the...

Just to add a bit, from personal experience with mountains. When you do everything right and things out of your control don't screw you...

Problems like this are one reason I don't think it's practical to abstract things to "supply". To continue the "Oregon Trail" analogy...

Tempting. But suppose they are traveling along a river with abundant fresh water. Does it make sense to count water weight? Having a...

Well, at some level it is always seat of the pants arbitrary. There is always going to be some subjectiveness to it when you allow...

I'm not denying the existence of players with complex aesthetics of play. In fact, the existence of complex aesthetics of play was and...

In general, yes. I could always imagine exceptions. If it's effectively permanent duration and hard to treat (a curse that is hard to...

I think it's a highly relevant response to the statement: "I think attempting to hew too close to realism is going to be...

It very much depends on how the participants define fun. A player with primary (or sole) aesthetics of Fantasy is fulfilled by lots of...

I6 Ravenloft is still in many ways the gold standard, a height of combining aesthetics and usability to which we have not regularly (or...

@ilgatto : Generally speaking, "motionless" and "helpless" are not the same thing in D&D. Or at least, the 3e designers who were trying...

Top Secret or Boot Hill. Those were really close.

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