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I find the hill diers numbers to be over-exaggerated. They do tend to be loud in social spaces I give you that. Though, you give away...

Adding to this, another problem with the term "modern" is that it is interchangeably used for when things were created as it is for when...

I always find that the key things to get proactive players are empowered players and pressured characters. Empowered players helped...

I think they are expensive. I consider complexity to be a cost (and extra subsystems to be a form of complexity) - and different people...

My objection to the term "Modern" is that the modern period in art ended in about the 1970s and modern architecture similarly. Modernism...

A lot here depends on the exact game and the way it's run. I mean I've seen it work with the right Apocalypse World playbooks (a...

By this logic, you can intermingle chess, Monopoly, and Settlers of Catan and say, "just use the rules for the game you want," and have...

We can approach this with a more extreme example: Would you use the same mechanics to run a game that's supposed to make players feel...

D&D had a pretty clear "intended narrative" -- go into the dungeon and find treasure, trying not to die along the way. Byt the time AD&D...

I don't think that is true. it is based on vibes emulation of those Appendix N books, because that is the inspirational litertaure for...

To me there's a big hidden factor here. Sometimes social gamers are a category, sometimes they are people who are not as engaged by the...

I think DND classes are 100% genre rules--agreed that they aren't recent PopCult tho.

I'm going to use an analogy. The Star Wars OT did things the way it did because it was innovative and groundbreaking and they were...

That is clearly what @Neonchameleon was talking about: OD&D and AD&D were designed to emulate specific genre tropes.

Those players are not only a very large pool of potential customers, many of them have been playing 5E long enough to be looking for...