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But game design is not simply a matter of preference. There can be a contrast of techniques. There can be criticism of techniques. A...

I mean, as long as we have the recognition that: 1. an invisible railroad can happen--where the players merely think they can travel...

So that means you should lie about how that style actually works? That you not liking it means you have free cover to call it...

I don't see how it has any effect at all on railroading. Just because you aren't assuming the PCs will interact with it, doesn't mean...

The only examples that come to mind are political, none of which would be a welcome topic of discussion here, I suspect. So probably...

Because such a restriction is so ludicrous, I genuinely don't believe anyone would actually hold that belief. It borders on poor-taste...

It’s ok, we just set the DC to get an audience with the king so high they’ll never succeed.

Whereas I see this as attempting to leverage an almost always imperfect social contract to solve a mechanical problem!

You've already caused a problem just in the jump between sentence 2 and sentence 3. The first is "know enough...to know why [any given...

It can be a problem for me! And I've known - and know - other RPGers for whom it can also be a problem. I don't care how compelling the...

Would you agree that you can't shoot the moon with an arrow (assuming you're not Artemis or similar) doesn't actually require the GM to...

Have you played much Burning Wheel? Or Torchbearer? I can tell you from experience that what you say here is simply not true - those...

Those 3 x bullet points that I put forth aren't things I would put forth as techniques. I meant them as principled constraints and...

....Seriously? "If I ever drink any alcohol, my entire family will suffer eternal torment"? What, exactly, leads to this? Because no...

But you keep describing this general category of gaming in openly inflammatory ways. Whether or not you are "mad", you have definitely...