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It means that applying techniques like small world, obdurium walls, false choices, or Schrodinger's maps can be justified if the GM is...

As a player, it's what I would consider railroading if I did it as a GM. It's a collection of techniques that are used to limit and...

"The Expanse" was a campaign before it was a series of novels/TV show as well.

With Joss Whedon we do know he played as a teen, in fact at least one show he made was definitely based on a campaign he ran (Firefly...

Yes, I am aware with that. I still stand by my explanation.

I don't find the two are incompatible. I can verify the players are engaged when they remanence about prior sessions, and it's sounds...

I get it, but just like back in the 1980s, I find that "well, what makes sense" in practice involves playing to the referee or the table...

1) My players don't like OSR games. They prefer more epic power fantasies and consider most of the characters too weak, the options too...

People typically are referring to OD&D and the Basic series when they say Old School was simpler, not AD&D and definitely not AD&D...

Nostalgia. I love capturing the vibe of the game back when I was a kid and everything about RPGs felt magical and cool. That's why I...

Yeah, I don't if I'm weird or not, but my goal is always something like, "If this was a television show, would people be entertained by...

The draw steel negotiation model is a formalization of how I've often conduct a negotiation over the years going back till at least the...

I've run Infinity 2d20, which treats social interaction much the same as combat (just like combat has Physical Damage, which is Soaked...

I would be curious to know what systems do this and how they manage it.

PvP is very game dependent. In D&D, PvP is very uncommon and it goes against spirit of the game, since it's party based game. On the...