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One of the most common criticisms of PbtA and FitD games is that most of them very much don't do an adequate job of explaining them, and...

This breakdown is absolutely fascinating. It's exactly the kind of post explaining the actual rules of burning wheel that gives me...

This is pretty wrong. If the DM failed to note than the grass on the plains the party entered was very tall when they initially...

This reminds me of a similar discussion that happened regarding Dragon Age 2: companion romance options being "Hawke-sexual". For those...

This seems flawed to me. The GM acts as the PCs' senses and needs to accurately convey information they would have. In the modern era...

I missed this earlier. As the person who came up with the high grass, I specifically mentioned it as being narrated prior to the...

Best I can tell, this is the 4th longest thread on the site. The longest is 28,759 posts. These are rookie numbers.

Sure, but if the ambient noise is loud enough to mask the sound of a group of orcs, surely it's significant enough to warrant narration...

I was under the impression that the line of discussion was about how to apply the fail-forward principle in D&D (while adhering to D&D's...

Chainmail bikinis are a terrible idea - they conduct heat when sunbathing!

It is not made up, but it's not actually in reference to this Tomb Raider RPG. It is, in fact, from Lara Croft's Tomb Raiders:

The short version is: Outgunned Adventure is a more streamlined version of the game that drops some of the more detail-focused rules of...

I think this ties to what I said a ways back regarding how (techniques associated with) simulationism act as an additional layer of...

Not to nit-pick the example, but it seems to me that this would be a violation of both simulationism and narrativism. For simulationism...

Not really, no. Disposition is an "inclination towards" or "willingness", not "guarantee of". This is as erroneous as the "it's what my...