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? It's been a long time since I played, but does Burning Wheel NOT have a partial success mechanic? Both MG and Torchbearer have them...

Burning Wheel is my favorite RPG of all time, hands down. I don't have much to add that hasn't already been said, but, in reading...

Man, how things have changed since Bunnies & Burrows had you meticulously tracking the the food point value of what you were eating and...

I'm not going to try and change your mind, just talk about my own experiences. Scripting, as a GM, should have regard to the...

Another thought or two prompted by these posts - hopefully I won't misinterpret too badly this time . . . So first, both BW and TB2e...

A couple things - the Mouse Guard are not common soldiers. They are more akin to Special Forces or Navy Seals, but with a much wider...

My answer to this would be "these sorts of incentive structures intentionally marry walking (engaging with the adventure or whatever)...

Even here, I frequently see people who are new to the game(s) miss the fact that even "failure" frequently only means "you succeed with...

I'm coming into this conversation HELLISHLY late, but I always feel the need to right this assumption when I see it in the wild. The...

I deeply appreciate Torchbearer, which led me to become a third-party developer for it—in full disclosure. Having worked on various...

All the parties involved were fictional, and the measurements were done to support a narrative, not to establish objective reality.

None of them have measurable superpowers. Different comic book writers have demonstrated time and again that each one of those...

Yeah, the omni-gadget rules. I miss that game. Hopefully they ship the reprint soon.

It's not a narrative conceit. He's smart enough to have thought that far ahead. Because there is no way to accurately simulate that...

I noted something similar earlier about the tendency of modern heist/caper RPGs to include a mechanism for flashbacks that change the...