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Trek has plenty of stuff in the narrative layer, no doubt. But not the examples you gave. Those are scientific, natural phenomenon...

My issue here though is that all those things you mentioned for Trek are considered scientific facts (and in fact are such) in universe...

I've played a ton of STA. I'm not a Trekkie by any stretch of the imagination but the game is super fun. The game system reads strangely...

I'm all right with it not being realistic as long as it is honest about doing it. 100% people should play what they like and if they...

I love STA (mostly because I love Star Trek), but for me it is a specific departure from the type of gaming I usually enjoy, with all...

The Mythic Britain & Ireland supplement for Vaesen.

I have added another Free League cloth map to the walls!

Some say normal is the setting on a washing machine. Personally I like the characters to be ordinary people in extraordinary...

I think you may miss an important point of your own question. Chesterson was talking about psychological novels - which, in his...

Spider-Man vs. Batman is an excellent comparison, and IMO characters like Spider-Man area big reason behind Marvel's early popularity. I...

Whereas I want my fiction to resemble reality unless there's an in-setting reason it doesn't.

It depends on the game and the players. My personal preference is definitely for a more grounded game, where the PCs may be "special" by...

And we’re nearly finished! Things are in the right sections now. Everything is on a shelf. Some of the novels etc may need a little...

I'm increasingly drawn to that idea. It matches much of the history. The New World explorers were bankrolled by governments. There's...

As part of my research into the system I've been looking into Lewis & Clark. They're a recent enough expedition to have good notes and...