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Meta? Good lord. Some people will throw that word around at the drop of a hat. So, for context, everything in most RPGs is an...

K think that for spell slots, but that's specifically because of the in-world explanation for how they're filled that a friend pointed...

Well, I think things like physical abilities that work x times per day and the like still represent something that the characters are...

I mean, it's meta in that it's not part of the game world, but it's not meta in that it is a game element that is representative of...

5e has been out for a dozen years; I don't mind running or playing it now and again, but I'm really bored with discussing it here on...

I’d argue that a turn is a much more specific unit in play than hours or minutes tend to be since it is tied specifically to play and...

Gahh. I hate knowledge checks. Not I guess in principle, but almost always in execution. I think my plan going forward is to grant...

I don't really like hours as an in-game measurement tool. Once you get to things that take that long you're abstracting an awful lot of...

That for me tends to be Fate, though I would potentially consider the underlying system of Legend in the Mist, as it looks like a good...

I don't generally know what a campaign is about until we're about halfway in. My campaigns are generally framed around a specific...

But in a player driven campaign, what the PCs are doing, IS what the campaign is about!

Brindelwood Bay. We are slowly uncovering the dark secrets that underly the sleepy town of Brindlewood Bay. That, or we're just having...

I tend to regard "storygame" as a bit of a scare quote category by default - it's like Greg Stafford calling Prince Valiant a...

I'll just say that Fate and Powered by the Apocalypse are the two "systems" beyond the behemoth of f20 games that made me rethink how...

Given what I know of your groups tastes, I think you'd all love it. I really enjoyed the tragic romance is ended up being. There was a...