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When it comes to game theory and definitions, there is no authority there are only opinions. Some opinions and preferences are more...

Huh? So what happens when my authorities say yours is wrong?

@pemerton is mostly right in his view on this. The initiative process produces ridiculous results if you look at things happening...

It's also like describing (American) football as stop action. The quarterback throws the ball, the receiver catches it and then gets...

It was a more general point, though I think there's very few combat systems of any detail that don't produce some degree of that. Its...

@clearstream But also for others, I very much like your perspective on the contrast between scenarios and what is gameful in each...

It's also taken out of context for what it's worth. On the other hand if I join a campaign and the DM is clear that it's a module or a...

This pre-ordaining outcomes is an interesting topic. The conclusion in the ToD Adventure Path is a series of encounters at the Well of...

Yes, I agree with you on both those points. My interest was more thinking about where game play may be located, and its subjects? So C's...

This seems to be along the lines of "when should one's opponent in chess knock over their king". Ought they to wait until checkmate is...

Part of the issue is that there's no way of knowing which lowlights now will affect which highlights later until (sometimes quite a...

I feel like this touches a bit on what a game is, and what it should mean to be playing a game. I think it is normally counted essential...

Say an L contains haggling, which leads to proposing a wager, which leads to a debt, which leads to a highlight scene. That's a chain of...

I’ve never understood this and it’s from 2 perspectives. 1. You advocate for a technique where any 1 of hundreds of die rolls could...

You aren't being told it doesn't work. You're being told that it's very different. The only thing about your posts that I said didn't...