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Not pemerton so I can't speak for him, but one difference between 'choosing stuff [that happens]' and 'choosing to do stuff' might...

Broadly. They're games that are aiming at a broad Big-Two-and-similar style experience. While you find offshoots within those that are...

How do you read games that have a genre/style focus, but not an exceptionally strong play methodology focus? Chill 3e is very much...

Most super hero games I've seen strongly suggest a four-color playstyle, but by no means do the mechanics push for such, at least not...

Duke Nukem is going to have the same disconnect: A property about a lone hero aimed squarely at a group. But, with Conan, it presents...

With the exception of supernatural/superhuman abilities (as @Dannyalcatraz notes), I think that most characters should be able to TRY...

The vast majority of super hero RPGs that aren't heavily narrativist (Mutants & Masterminds, Marvel Multiverse, FASERIP). You can play...

I don't understand your second paragraph. Are you saying I can't run D&D as a sandbox, like I do all the time, without ignoring all...

Well, none of us know exactly how they arrive at their prices—and we may want to know exactly how a company prices its products, but...

But again, the factors that go into the price increases per their announcement are the same for all PDFs they produce. Why raise some...

Well, imagine the outcry if a company said it was trying to pay creators fairly. Nobody wants to pay for that! At least print costs can...

Of course. But every time I've ever seen an announcement increasing the cost of physical books, printing costs are listed front and...

Fair enough. But why then is the cost of printing often given as a major reason for price increases of physical books?

It depends greatly on the goals the players come up with. If a PCs goal is to explore the world, then exploring the world is not only...