Recent content by Fenris-77

Yup, that sounds correct. Pin this and we'll move on. :LOL:

Let's not try to make people take a stance unless we have to....

No, I mean that most RPGs do a terrible job of explaining the 'conversation'. Newer games are more likely to do a better job of course.

When you say 'a lot' I assume you mean 'most'.

This can be taken way too far. Take the GM for example. They might decide to do all manner of world building that won't ever really directly impact play at the table, but it does serve to better locate them next to the 'thingness' of the setting. Deciding that that work simply isn't useful is...

IDK man. That GM doing GM stuff is doing something game related. Anyone who wants to try and parse it differently is selling something. It's not play exactly, but it's still game adjacent. Just like players thinking about how to advance or play their characters between sessions.

The other thing that I like about this topic is that is locates 'the conversation' as the central mover of RPG play. Not rules, not mechanics, but the conversation. That's where play happens. I'm going to step down off this soapbox now, I think my biases are showing.

I think this is an important idea. People sometimes talk about systems as things in and of themselves that 'do things' but they really don't. Only the game played at the table is any real measure of a system. Now you might need to talk about 'usual play' or some kind of equivalent, but I don't...

Yup, some people are just using whatever they like and daring the CR holders to do something. Or they're too dumb to realize they're doing the wrong thing. One of those. Or a combo. There are so many products there's no easy way to police it. We haven't even talked about using art you don't have...

Lots of little things, like which fonts are usable in commercial products. I follow those guidelines (now that I know how they work), but I know lots of people don't. It is what it is.

My favorites (which might be newts) are the bright orange ones with blue spots.

I suspect that a deep read of DTRPG would turn up a veritable cornucopia of copyright infringement, some purposeful, most probably done in ignorance.

And the R, to make it a bit less swoopy.

Huh. The straight portmanteaux actually works pretty well with minimal resizing. I tilted the L's a bit to straighten them up a bit and dropped the font size of the V and the D. That's about it.