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Are you sure you're not RPG Pundit, because you're posting like RPG Pundit.

Your definition of "adversarial" is extremely narrow. From the Oxford Dictionary: Adversarial: Involving or characterized by conflict...

I've seen plenty of (countless?) instances of that in WoD games, as a direct result of the power paradigm that I called out. Including...

There were also a lot of people not giving that advice for decades. Again, look at the early WoD offerings in the 1990s. Early WoD...

It would've literally changed how I played/run games decades ago, instead of like 15 years ago. Right? The game I'm currently writing...

How different would the RPG world have been if we could take the GMing advice from Apocalypse World or Monster of the Week or any of the...

Yeah, it doesn’t make me less likely to use what I have, which are complete rules anyways...but I won't give Goodman Games another dime.

Absolutely the same.

There are still some bad Storytellers out there who were brought up on bad Storyteller advice from the early era of WoD games. I talk...

It certainly was more wide spread than the community was willing to admit. And a phenomenon not limited to D&D. The worst GM I've ever...

They absolutely lost me as a (longtime) customer over that.

I also don't think you can just keep doing the same thing forever and expect the audience to stay as excited about your product as when...

Standard Array on D&D Beyond. I haven't played D&D in about two years and I just wanted the least fuss method.

No dishonesty intended or present in my post. The project did fund in 2011, digital was released in 2023, and lots of backers did jump...

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