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That certainly makes it sound like the “purpose of a role-playing game” is a bunch of in-character dialogue and thespianism; that might...

I offered one not too long ago in a thread that touched on this topic. In Stonetop, there is a playbook called The Heavy. They're a...

Yes, we know. Yet others may find it desirable to do so. That you don't is both clear and also irrelevant to that. And that concern...

does anyone have any examples they could bring to the discussion of how social mechanics are implemented in some games other than DnD...

To me, this is a pretty odd claim. Particularly given that I know some of the processes that you use: eg rolling some dice to see who...

I think that when it comes to player loss of control of character… whether as a result of some kind of supernatural effect like magic or...

I think this is separate from the issue of rolling dice. I'm sure in the history of human beings there have been cases where a single...

Every game is full of rules that bind how the GM acts. The game tells you how to run an encounter, how to give out treasure, how to set...

Perhaps the people who keep asserting that inadvertently startling a cook is "completely unrelated" to a failed attempt at burglary:

I was watching a show recently where A had put a drug into B's drink, as part of a conspiracy with C and D. But B then didn't want to...

So is fighting. So is climbing. So is being an impressive and charismatic performer. None of these are processes that are much like the...

Of course the suggestion is intelligible. @hawkeyefan gave an example from actual play of 5e D&D. I've given examples from actual play...

This is like saying, if all I write is fantasy, then why would I read examples of non-fantasy fiction? It seems obvious to me that...

If you read the Apocalypse World rules, you'll see that "Make the players' character's lives not boring" and "Be a fan of the players'...

When I do stuff like this in most games I run right now, it’s a “pay a cost to resist or succumb” type situation. Blades gives me Stress...