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I noted something similar earlier about the tendency of modern heist/caper RPGs to include a mechanism for flashbacks that change the...

ICv2 has been including Kickstarter since 2015.

i saw the hobby as a whole moving away from sim well before the 3e era. I won't speak of D&D specifically here because I wasn't...

So no Inspiration, Luck tokens etc in your game? Because they count for that IMO. Its nothing coming from the character and in-universe...

I say this with some comfort in my assessment, but admitting I can't prove it: while perhaps not viewing the hobby as a whole, I think...

I don't actually think ot is particularly niche in a field of the niche. Everyone has a specific playstyle. Few are more niche than...

Most of us have vastly different goals than Micah, it is what it is. I appreciate his play style, but it's very niche.

I mean, I ran that simulation a thousand times, and hobbits never saved the world. I think the author was using metacurrency.

Sam, actually, is also exceptional. He's not of royal bloodline, but he's also not one of those dirty urban people. Tolkien has a...

When you are talking about equality, that both Boromir and Aragorn (and Gimli, and Legolas, and Gandalf) come from lineages that the...

The Numenoreans were so exceptional, they lived for centuries. They were potent enough to fight side-by-side with the first, most...

More seriously: the kind of historical accuracy that castigates Sam Gamgee for talking about poe-tae-toes is not something I think us...

Well, you know my usual response to that: "You're using D&D why then?" Its been a poor choice for that from the day it came in three...

It’s just that constraint can help focus things and shape creativity. If someone says “tell a story”, that’s a pretty broad request. If...