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Executive orders do have the weight of law within the Executive branch. Which in this case happens to include all the relevant agencies...

There are too many problematic implications around what may properly count as a rule or a game, for me to engage with the "by its very...

I don't think the two must be mutually exclusive, but they will have to share. As the race happens at the pyramid, if the map dictates a...

That all makes sense. I couldn’t play this way with NPC agendas and goals out on the table upfront because for me that destroys...

Re: D&D 4E Skill Challenges I've said this elsewhere, but I ran them very differently when I was running 4E. Instead of X successes...

This is a good question. So this assumes that the GM baked a path into the SC, like the graphs mentioned elsewhere. This is certainly...

Sure. But there’s no basis for which goal should be difficult and which shouldn’t be. Which demonstrates the arbitrariness of using...

Yea that’s along the same thought lines I’d had, though said much more eloquently. My point was more that if someone wanted those...

Skill challenges are better understood as a shared fiction generation exercise that allows for player contributions to be digested...

Why try to make it personal?

Then what's the point of bringing up the linear/railroad talk?

1. What does the GM base his decision to require 3 successes before 5 failures instead of 5 successes before 7 failures. Deciding one vs...

Your teenage years is when a lot of your tastes in media imprint on you. Chances are high that you consider the best music to be the...

My intuitions on this are so far similar. Your example of changing the monster's damage modifier to -5 shows how it can be comparable...

I don't think there's necessarily "scenes" at all. In some, maybe there are. There might be a defined start point and a defined...