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This (more narrative games, players having more control over the fiction) falls under modern mechanics, doesn't it? Not a space I am...

This is a really interesting question. I think the big issue is the 60 sessions. That's going to mean the game has to allow for...

To add to this, when I used GURPS to run X-Com, the reason I chose GURPS was because, after evaluating a range of systems it was GURPS...

I guess my problem with this is that it assumes that the only possible intent can be to want to create a particular, narrow experience...

Maybe it's your phrasing. Maybe it's me after a long day. But I am having difficulty parsing what you are actually trying to argue. I'm...

sure and my reply was meant to say that claiming that intent is something only games with a very narrow focus can have is patently...

no, I was using the latter as hopefully sufficiently universally known examples for strongly themed games vs less strongly themed (the...

you say that strongly themed games are better at mechanically representing their theme than more generic games. Sure, they probably are...

as I wrote in another post, much of that is personal preference rather than some objectively measurable improvement. I agree that OSE’s...

I'd rather watch the Jeremy iron/Marlon Wayans d&d movie nine times over than debase myself and Asimov's memory by watching that show.

DESIGN NOTE: THE PSI WARPER The Psi Warper subclass scored exceptionally well and doesn’t need to go through another playtest

it can either have been dropped or passed, but even if it passed, that does not mean it will be published unchanged

and highly themed games strike out when you want to play something outside their theme, even worse than more generic games do There...

You are truly an endless spring of profundity.

No more so than the point that newer is sometimes better.