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I think you're overstating things. White Wolf didn't refer to the GM as "the storyteller" for no reason and there is a significant...

This is why I tend to refer not so much to "modern games" as "post-Forge games". The actual Forge games are barely remembered and a lot...

I think of "modern" more as pertaining to a RPG's overall design, rather than its mechanics. To me, a game feels "modern" if (i) it is...

I think Masks is a very good example of a game that wouldn't have been created until relatively recently. A superhero game focussed more...

Bastions are for a specific type of campaign and not one I'm running right now. And to be blunt they look about the quality of a random...

[snip for length] I think what you are missing here is that the core reason for the lack of genuinely interesting stuff in 5e is the...

While that's perfectly fine, the question as asked was, "When will we get 5e's Bo9S?" In slightly different words, but they did...

This is where I split Forge games from modern post-Forge games. Forge games themselves, like My Life With Master, Polaris, Wushu Open...

When I think about intentional design I think about designers having a clear vision of what they want the game to be about, not just...

I have suspicion that what's really being seen here is the tendency of Forge-derived games and their descendants to drill down on a...

Ahhh... The "what is a hit point?" argument. And given that hit points measure how beaten up you can get without getting injured or...

You think hit points exist in the fiction as well? 'I'm down to my last few hit points' is something that one character would say to...

I should have said modern games are more likely to be designed with intention. And of course, there were older brilliant games that were...

While your main point relates to success with complication as a main focus, I think it's worth noting that degrees of success rather...

Heck, James Bond 007, pointed to by some as the origin of metacurrency points (though there are earlier examples) had “add something to...