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Same here, but (if chance and time permit) all that focus goes into its personality instead. I'm only going to get one chance to play...

Good to see I'm not the only one who has love for "Solo". Considering that Ron Howard had to salvage it like something out of a Mos...

You see the youngling’s mistake right there. “Management Trainee? MANAGEMENT TRAINEE? I’m C-Suite now!”

If the game tells you how to apportion authorial control, I don't see how that is effectively different than mechanics in the game doing it.

To the bolded: those are mechanics IMO, only at a top level rather than a specific rules level.

When you say "steer(s) the narrative", is that intended to mean something different than, say, "drive(s) the fiction" would? I ask...

Well, I don't think that narrative mechanics primarily steer the narrative of game so much as they create play outputs of a certain...

Good heavens no, they certainly do not. As for 'objective', I think that's more a word to apply in individual cases where it might be...

That really isn't enough to imply anything beyond a vague similarity, which isn't enough for our purposes. They are also both very...

If pre-gens are provided, or if character generation is dirt simple and very fast, then one-shots can work just fine. It seems the OP's...

Wow. (1st paragraph) "a lot of people" citation? you realize that as games were published they were "modern design" at the time, and...

Few - or better yet, no - decision points during char-gen is a fairly hard-line requirement for simplicity IMO. Decision points can, to...

The Wizard can learn spells in play using paper and ink, casts from a book, does ritual magic better than anyone else, and is literally...

A single 14 AND the average of the six stats has to be at least 10.0. 14-9-9-9-9-9 gets a re-roll as the average is 9.8.

In my game #4 would get to reroll because no stat is over 13. The other five of those are each quite playable, though #3 could prove...