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Just about all of which were quite good, if maybe not always intentional, balancers that really did keep casters reined in a bit. And...

Great! now you've ruined it for everybody who hasn't read the books. Spoilers man, spoilers. 🙃

I am trying to figure this out… Without a predetermined plot, a story is emergent…after play. This is especially true if you consider...

I'm going to add one evolution that I'm seeing in D&D... for good and bad. I think we're seeing a shift from practical consequences of...

i disagree, stories don't have neat beginnings middles and ends, they start and stop within themselves and overlap and intertwine with...

Tap tap tap on your shoulder: "Hi; I'm the Teleport spell, and I'd like a word...." :)

But a game isn't a story until it is over. RPGs generate stories by virtue of being played, but they aren't "A Story". Stories have...

Most of the time, however, the story (or elements thereof) doesn't become clear until viewed in hindsight.

A piece of woven fabric is in nearly every possible case more useful than a pile of disconnected threads. Threads are potential...

Only if you're concerned about the story arcs of the individual characters rather than that of the party or adventuring company as a...

That sounds just fine from here. :) I think you knew exactly what you were doing, though maybe you just didn't realize it yet.

In 3.5 Glabrezus could cast Wish for a mortal once per month. Then 4E removed it and 5E didn't bring it back. They were one of the few...

I don't think unified mechanics is good for its own sake. Mechanics should support the thing they are trying to emulate. Sometimes that...

I don't disagree, but I'm not wholehearted with you. Complexity has a couple of niches, and what you say address both of them...

Yeah, me too, for about five minutes bask in the day. Then I realized what they were going for, just blamed Conan, and stopped worrying...