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I prefer the pcs to be very special indeed; Exalted is pretty much my personal sweet spot. I can enjoy a wide range of course, but I...

Eh. Again, it depends what skill. Yes, the skills connected to long-term resource management are hard to make central to play with...

Using the vocabulary of GNS (from The Forge), he identifies two forms of simulationism - purist-for-system (eg C&S) and high concept...

Agreed. It seems like a concession to the sorts of approach that Pulsipher criticises. I think it's interesting in that it shows that...

Basically, the 'player skill' focused OSR mentality (as popularized by Matt Finch's Primer written in 2008) is a fairly recent...

Honestly, your patronizing tone is tiresome. You seem to think you are the only one who knows how the game is meant to be played, and...

Pretty much every game I've ever played. Competitive Team Fortress 2 is for all intents and purposes a different game from the game...

I don't know. I'm playing in two campaigns and running one and very rarely get anything but full table, but I consciously organize games...

I'm not super convinced about some fundamental difference between RPGs and every other type of games. In my experience, pretty much...

A good player should be ready for anything; especially when I'm GMing. Difficult combats! Social challenges! Eat a taco topped with...

That aside, theories of games tend to be broadly applicable to all games in the genre. Whether you are playing Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh...

Anything can be "an event that happens in the game". That doesn't tell us whether or not it is railroading.

As another tangent, I find it baffling that two opposing teams, arbitrated by an Actually Neutral Referee are such an uncommon format of...

I wonder if a big part of this "skilled play" debacle is just a natural consequence of deficiency and anemia of roleplaying theory...

Even within spaces like TCGs and Warhammer where this (correct) definition of “the metagame” is relevant, a lot of people don’t even...