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The line "In game terms, Conan is a sorcerer!" from Ron Edwards' Sorcerer & Sword hurt my soul when I initially read it. And I still...

I just watched The Accountant 2 this morning. It was a fun action flick.

The nookie. (j/k). I like modern conspiracy/weirdness and bio-terror a lot. Stuff like The Andromeda Strain, Bureau 13, Fringe, Resident...

It's almost Christmas here, but my sister and parents gifted things a little early (my sister bought me a wet palette and a collapsible...

I think you are trying to redefine what is being discussed. Adversarial is not a play style. You are describing old school dungeon...

While I think the play styles for DnD were more varied and somewhat less adversarial than folks propose (this is anecdotal on both sides...

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...