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What game or games are you talking about? It would basically have to be “improv governed solely by a metacurrency” to work like that...

When you build strawmen, do you prefer plastic or paper straws?

From my vantage point, at least when I first saw it being used, it was a resource that the player spent, that the character had no...

All of these read like boogeyman versions of what someone who has never played with a metacurrency thinks that they are.

One of the reasons I like GM facing metacurrencies is because it helps alleviate the question of whether the GM was acting fairly. Don't...

I love them. For decades, at least in the circles I ran in, it felt like the holy grail of gaming experiences was when you'd have a...

I’ll always be fond if 3E/PF1 E6 for this reason. Then again, what do I know? I’ve been happily running Traveller for a long time now.

Real life. When we were young, we had fewer responsibilities or at least responsibilities that were easier to shuffle around. As adults...

It's never this for me, my players are always where the game falters and fades away.

Which would cement it even more solidly in the camp of metacurrency, since the character was not stressed at all between the point where...

Is Stress in FitD games not considered a metacurrency? The player is using a resource the character is unaware of to retcon the...

The only solo gaming I've enjoyed are the world buildey, journaling and mapping styled games. Oracle and (shudder) AI GMs frustrate and...

Went fishing. Realized we're vampires. [The card-LARP Tacklebox is a wild freaking ride. It's not going to be for everybody, but when...

The vast majority of D&D sales are driven by successful marketing of various stripes. The idea that 5e's success at bringing in new...

500 people attended the first flat earth conference. Having others believe what you believe doesn't make it the belief correct.