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Full disclosure: probably about 90% of my time at the table has been as a player, but I've always read the books to the point that I was...

The fatal flaw of consulting players is the overwhelming majority don't RTFM to understand the GM's position.

Given your complaint about people pigeon-holing your approach, I think it would be wise to not lump Bedrock based on his advocacy of...

I've been giving some thought to a signature ability for the Wudang techniques, but first, some research. The Wudang in question is the...

One of the things that came up in this thread before I joined, that I find contentious is the conflation of GM-created/authored with...

I think he definitely deserves credit as an influence, and I have no personal dislike of him (I tend to be more forgiving of the...

Its not the categorization I have an intrinsic issue with (though I think JConstantine has it right that Edwards really didn't...

And there's me collecting and playing Warhammer since the 90s, while also hamming it up in Red Dragon Inn.

The narrativist-leaning folk might bristle at this, but one is learning to GM. Think of it like stabilising wheels on a bike: useful...

This was exactly my problem with Cortex Prime. I got into RPGs properly after MHR and Firefly had been pulled so I only had the Prime...

I think this would be a fantastic idea. There are three rough implementations in the core book (Eidolon Alpha, Hammerheads, and Trace...

Personally, I think Ron Edwards is to RPGs what Freud was psychology - undoubtedly influential with some incredibly flawed notions - and...

I have observations on this, but I'm not sure they'd be received well enough for a constructive discussion.

Personally, I try to approach a given game in the spirit it was intended, even if it's not quite my thing. Not everyone does, and that...

There's that reactionary pushback I was talking about. The irony is that I, the one who made that comment, not only don't think everyone...