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Earlier in the discussion we discovered some games you reference state skills meant one thing only to find out that in play they...

Opposite tack here: I say build the setting first. If you build it, they will come. That, and inviting players in only to then have...

That is how my sim is adjudicated, yes. I still wouldn't call it GM-driven play, since the players decide what play is focused on...

Well that point I'm much more sympathetic to, I'm just not persuaded a substitute activity is acceptable. I want to play the "read these...

Formally, no. But see my clarifying edit to my previous post. I think it is much more likely someone will have that mindset toward a 30...

That's right. I was agreeing that you raise some pertinent questions, and proposing that a step in answering them will be to identify...

I’m not against them but this seems to be in practice what happens.

The difficulty in getting a quorum of players to actually consume and then use in play the setting information in these thick settings...

Well, I won't disagree that 5.0 and 5.5 feel quite different to me. But I'm also thinking of RPG topics like the martial/caster debate...

Yeah. Over here... https://www.enworld.org/threads/different-games-for-the-referee-and-players.713415/

I hope this sentiment is not pulling away too many people. I really hope to one day get time and players to enjoy the Arden Vul...

Is the Forge stuff all the faux-intellectual stuff? Hard pass there. This at least seems to make a reasonable amount of sense at a high...

Eh. Analysis like this is almost a Rorshach test, people see patterns whether they're there or not. But the patterns almost always...

I’ve advocated players being flexible for a long time. I think a player being strongly tied to one character concept is equally...

if all things are equal, why can't we also be urging players to ignore their dislikes?