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Can't you just say you prefer games where the GM has hard restrictions in what they're allowed to do? As far as I can tell that's what...

Maybe their stomach was making the rumblies that only hands could satisfy?

The limits are essentially self-imposed, or imposed by social construct. I don't railroad my players. Why don't I? I've said I won't...

I am 100% sure that no one in this thread thinks or is claiming that Blades in the Dark and The Majestic Wilderlands are "exactly the...

Sorry to dredge this back up, but I have been thinking about this post after a recent exchange. There are a number of trad sandboxers...

You mean like when @TwoSix stated that perception skills shouldn't exist (which would, at best, fundamentally alter several RPGs...

Honestly, I am genuinely torn when I try and understand where you're coming from. Half the time it feels like you're just being...

I think I may have figured it out, although @pemerton will have to tell me if I’m wrong. In the games he plays, in the examples he has...

As per my later post, this sounds like utterly pointless semantic quibbling to me. To bypass is go around something instead of straight...

Crowdfunding was a thing years before 5e came out. Kickstarter itself launched back in 2009. Sure, it's facilitating a host of indie...

We'll never know how D&D got so big, but I also don't discount the relative ease of starting to play. Yes, a lot of it is cultural...

Both Stranger Things and Critical Role are contributing factors, but they're a "win more" situation. It seems to have been a perfect...

Yeah. The other part of the Paizo dev's comment was that the pie is so large, that even though they're getting a narrower slice compared...

Given the global naughty word show, I'd say grunge is due a revival.

D&D5e is the single largest, most commercially successful RPG to date. It utterly dwarfs every other single RPG in existence. A few...