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Somehow we got to the 2e version (or close enough) by about 1983. What we had (and still have today): Get hit down to anywhere between...

Even in a game as tightly edited as 1e, a few contradictions are bound to slip by...

That is for certain. I know GMs on occasion sign up for something they think they want, but find out they really dont. I know ive...

I have, once or twice, but I just take it as being part of the territory. As long as the passive player is involved enough to know when...

I am quite the same and >90% of the times I just played with people I already knew, because even if decide they don't like it, they...

If you-as-GM weren't interested in it then it never had a chance. GM disinterest very quickly becomes all too obvious to the players...

I think recognizing experiments inevitably are going to fail sometimes is one thing, but its another when you have a campaign setup you...

In superhero RPGs it's the giant, bubble-lettered onomatopoeia that keeps popping up over my head..."BLAM!" "POW!"...that always yanks...

Underneath it all, I think the bolded is what makes me dislike the concept in principle. For me, I generally want player knowledge and...

Isn't that just the way things go sometimes though? You have to take the bitter with the sweet IMO.

At least to me, it is because as a player I want to be focusing to the PoV of the character, and make decisions that the character would...

GM prep is what makes that role not meta. If you put together the world beforehand, and stick to it when the dice hit the table, it's...

As informed by the initial die roll, right? The dice roll directly informs the actual outcome; all the other mechanical effects and-or...

That's in line with what we disscussed about tv shows. Some people like limited series (myself included). Some people, like my mom or my...

Maybe ChatGPT can't build a house but some of the elements for building an AI house already exist: AI can design a house to prompt, and...