Recent content by loverdrive

All games are about having fun. That's, like, the nature of any recreational activity.

That's a major reason why my recent designs are built around elaborate and fictionless resolution minigames where you can and should be playing to win. Because playing to win against a resisting opponent is fun, who could've thought.

Honestly, I wouldn't expect anything else. Developing games is hard! The way I see it, it's just a little fun on the side to be had.

Here's a TRPG with rules that contain the entire game There doesn't exist a single situation that isn't covered by the rules. What now?

Damn I somehow forgot how much Killer Mike is killing As of the actual question: mostly in person, online only with people I particularly like and who live far away. But if my city didn't have a cool club that is right next door to me, the answer would be very different.

GM is controlling opposition. That is, by definition, not neutral nor impartial. For obvious reasons. I honestly can't believe that I have to spell it out. You can have an impartial arbiter between two opposing teams of players, sure. Too bad there's no Team Monsters in dnd, yeah. (And even...

Sure, I think that'd be a fair assessment (which, I must say, is not a value judgment, just something I vehemently dislike) Although, say, B/X can easily be played basically like a boardgame where players basically gamble at whether the next door they'll bash will be good or not and the GM is...

I must say that while on paper the GM's decision making is unconstrained, in reality you can't really do any of those circumventing measures. Because you'd get called a jerk and the players will get one step closer to deciding that maybe just grabbing a few beers and playing cards all night...

I think there's a deeper problem: the very notion of "fair play". Because it's not a thing that can possibly exist, unless you change the structure of the game closer to a wargame with two opposing sides. For obvious reasons, GM cannot ever be neutral. Because you can't be neutral when you are...

So, yeah. What kind of folk games that people in your world play? They surely don't play our games, after all.