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Right, and like I said, it was a valuable discussion to have.

Yes, but isn't erroneous to point out that the conventional wisdom in the 1990s, which the Forge theories were written to rebut, was...

I find so often in this sort of thing, a controversial but earnest body of theory has something like a 60/40 or 70/30 ratio of wheat to...

I think the ideas developed on the Forge were a mixed bag. Taking this notion of the impossible thing before breakfast for example, I...

Like most Forge nonsense, it’s based on a half-baked faulty premise. The referee does not have complete control over the story. The...

As long as there is no long range teleportation (which I tend to ban,) there is simply rather limited amount of places the PCs can get...

I mean, I disagree that it’s so hard to guess what the players’ immediate next goal will be. But more importantly, if one does find it...

It depends how you’re defining a “true sandbox.” Does the existence of adventure hooks or other signposts pointing out where to go to...

I could be mistaken, but I think it’s a Forge term. One of many they came up with for various solutions to what Ron Edwards called “the...

I would join this thread .... but I know where it is going. I guess that it makes it the most aptly named thread ever!

I think that is a grotesquely simplified version of not only RPG history but the dynamics of play. My reading of the very first RPG...

I disagree. A lot of that work can be offloaded to the dice. Make a lot of robust random tables, and you don’t necessarily have to do...

This is called a "Rowboat World". You can go anywhere but you have to put in all the effort and the vast majority of what you find will...

At the end of the day, whether any style works or does not work comes down to the DM and the players being on the same page and playing...

It's one part. Another is that, even when two people completely agree about what "railroading" means, one will say it is a completely...