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Sure, but there is another team in basketball. There's no Team Monsters in D&D, so you can only feasibly compare players to each other...

Ah, right, I think I got distracted when writing, or maybe short-circuited. He wins against me fairly regularly, but loses hard to...

Many things involve skills that can't be measured. That in itself is not a problem or slight against them. But in a context of a game...

My "favourite" iteration of the vision-impairment rules is fog cloud, where everyone is basically attacking each other blind, and the...

The main reason is that in the context of 5e, a warlock without power turns into a pumpkin. There's a drastic power curve, and falling...

Quote from David Sirlin's "Playing to Win" You know what this description reminds me of? Don't look up the adventure, that's cheap...

I just realized the most important question was never brought up. How can there be skilled play if no one is keeping track of who's the...

Which is totally superfluous to whether or not social or combat encounters be decided by GM fiat. No matter the stakes, GM fiat deciding...

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...