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Ok, ran the game for the first time. An incredibly positive experience for me personally and for pretty much everyone at the table (6...

Over the years, I’ve explored a number of systems and settings, each offering something valuable but rarely aligning with everything I...

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

Guys, the Ignore List exists for a reason.

This is exactly what I've been thinking about the last few pages. In the RPGs I mostly play, optimization in chargen (and progression)...

Sorry, you can attempt to optimize -- be an optimizer -- even if you don't understand the rules well. You'd just not effective at it...

Until the Daggerheart playtest last year, the idea of a session zero never even existed to my group. People would chat on our FB...

The assassin is much more different from the rogue than is being suggested because of the domains, although Nightwalker makes a decent...

But if they don't even match reality it's hard to have a discussion

Niche protection comes up a lot in those kind of comparisons, too. Many groups (but not all) are okay when the combat specialist does...

This comes across as incredibly belittling and insulting to rules heavy systems and the imaginations of people who enjoy them, so I am...

I'm simply going to laugh at the idea that Apocalypse world has few meaningful choices during character generation. And then try to work...

Session Zero is a surprisingly new thing in the history of RPGs, in part because fighting over or waiting for the rulebook leads to a...

If you can "break" the game by making good decisions instead of bad ones, the game is bad, and you should play something else. It...

Also, I have never experienced a session 0 where players asked around to establish, "Hey, how much are we optimizing here?" My groups...