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It's obviously a matter of degree, and then personal taste. Expecting those things not to exist at all is not realistic, but it doesn't...

It is about whether the decision process of the player and character are aligned. More abstracted, disassociated, mechanics create...

So what I'm hearing is that if you don't enjoy RPGs the same way you do, then you shouldn't be playing your RPG, or possibly any RPG?

Defending House certainly wasn’t on my EnWorld bingo card for today, but here goes anyway. First, yes, it was part of middle aged white...

Sure, but the character does not need to decide to use their "good at avoiding detection" they just are that and is is not spent once...

The difference for me is when the mechanics intrude unnecessarily into the fiction. Having a doom clock would do that for me.

Not @Crimson Longinus but I'll take a guess: the question is whether - in the clocks example - you're looking at the state of the...

OK, fair enough. Makes sense except for one thing: for me, the two bolded bits are in direct conflict. Organically playing the...

So I have played maybe one session of Apocalypse World about which I remember basically nothing. But by the rules, I think PbtA is way...

You are welcome to feel that way, but referring to my feelings on this matter as "mind bogglingly silly" is not the most polite way to...

yeah, that is usually tends to be the sentiment I try to convey with it. But if basically all RPGs are "fiction first" then it is...

Probably not a good person to respond. I still have my white box D&D and black box Traveller sets. But even if you don't run them...

I keep them all. They're a collection.

So I actually agree with you here to a point. Mechanics can be tools to communicate the understanding that the characters have. The...

I mean based on your criteria, "fiction first" is meaningless; there is no RPG published that isn't that, as in any RPG the most rules...