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It's a very gamist way of playing, which is fine for many people. But it often feels like an artificial constraint imposed by the game...

I mean, a super easy example is 3 branching paths that converge to a place you want to go. Say, a weather-beaten cliff mid storm, maybe...

Feels like this is fundamentally about skill design, not adventure design. You want the skills to point to abilities players want to use...

I don't believe those things are mutually exclusive. You can certainly designs systems where the players have to come up with clever...

It takes caring about maps (which can be a big ask depending on the overall shape of the game), but my favorite iteration of this is "we...

Discussions about skill systems often lead to debates about player skill vs. character skill, but they also raise questions about what...

I mean, I have a lot more sympathy for the argument of “passive noticing skills are bad” than “all skills are bad”.

The problem with that of course is that it really stretches setting logic to have a significant consequence every time someone attempts...

It seems as though it should be possible to make a character who notices things, or who knows things. As a GM I actually prefer having...

How would you prefer to model a character that's supposed to know more than other characters? Just give them more information directly...

@Bill Zebub Don't take this the wrong way, it's not attack or anything like that. But from this, and posts on other topics, i get the...

Is that an issue of damage, or an issue that when asked to describe something, the default is to go with that which is outwardly visible?

Ah. I already play a lot of that game. The GM is a PITA and won't let us do anything cool. The 1:1 scale map they made of the game...

I’d assume that in a fantasy world things like luck and fate can be real forces as well, especially if we have mechanics that represent...