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I started a long answer and then realized it boiled down to two words: "Not Simulationist". Older systems used mechanics as a way of...

So, I think this might be a core reason Force Points are giving you issues -- and why others can run for years without seeing such...

I really am unsure what you mean here. In a game that is a railroad, the tracks very much do go somewhere. If they only mostly go...

My way of thinking about damage on a miss is that the character is so relentless and implacable that they always set back any foe they...

The most typical way of understanding coercion is in terms of a proposal - by the person doing the coercion - to make the other person's...

But in real life, a hit doesn't require damage be done. In fencing and many martial arts, you just have to contact a person and it's a...

Star Wars Saga: If it does hit point damage, it's energy and luck. If it does wounds, it;'s blood. D&D: It depends on the source of the...

No, but it typically has the potential to be. If I have a simple adventure that requires the players to choose to bargain with A, fight...

I think you'll find most people DON'T think of it as a quantitative term. It's intrinsic in the metaphor -- a railroad has a direction...

OK. I think I have this now. Bloodtide plays characters who prioritize their survival "far above" everything else. Any other consequence...

Why can't combats meaningfully affect the story even if you just get captured? Like I genuinely don't understand how or why that is an...

I just see that as incredibly boring. That's like saying you could skip Lord of the Rings by being told, "They climbed Mount Doom and...

It's kind of amusing that this argument that games need character death to be fun is in the D&D group, famously a system where death is...

The statement that the only thing that matters in an an RPG is whether or not you die is a very foreign one to me. For me, the core of a...

Defeat in combat doesn't have to mean death. I know that in D&D that's the default; but it's possible to narrate being dropped to zero...