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TBF if you're going to have a long ongoing campaign you're still going to have to win the large majority of fights you get into. The...

I was really pleased that Daggerheart's no initiative system allows specialists to shine if that's how everyone wants to play. The game...

You can't win or lose at life, either, but people still talk about life having winners and losers, and we all know what they mean...

I think @Umbran had it right, but reversed it to make a point. The more important point, IMO, is that if it FEELS like WINNING, then...

The idea of winning/losing at TRPGs lines up pretty well with my experience of co-op board games--which are the only ones we play at my...

I personally have found that open ended nature to be the most useful way to explain the design/structural challenges of the RPG vs...

This is the crux of where people are seeing things differently. To the extent that the player playing well (and yes, "the player playing...

Wining and losing are what characters do; do not what players do. As a player, your focus is having fun and (I strongly hope) helping...

I've softened my stance on optimization from in the past, where I thought it was a pox on the hobby. Optimizers are not only perfectly...

That's why we always like to have at least one non-optimizer at the table.

I mean, non-optimizers benefit massively more from both of those changes than optimizers lol. Optimzers will usually have PCs with...

The only quibble I'd have, here--and it's a minor quibble, I'm not looking for an argument--is that I think the distinction is the...

This comes close to my feelings. Winning and losing in an RPG are mostly down to the mission at hand, but success or failure are usually...

The best analogy I can come up with is that it's like running a marathon. Scores will be taken. There will technically be a "winner"...

Well, note that in many multi-player games, several players can lose before the game ends. You can go bankrupt in Monopoly, and the...