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Shooter was a big figure in comics, in every sense. There's going to be some interesting articles coming out in the next few days, about...

Yeah, count me in that group. Honestly I can't stand all the "setting up the board" stuff... ...but I don't at all define success or...

I really should get to work on that Neurospicy to Neurobland dictionary.

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I think that for some players, each mission objective is "the game," and all of the story and background and world-building and...

I thought I saw somewhere that the anime RPG Break!! was inspired by 4E but I can’t seem to verify that. I don’t see it in the book at...

Yep. Optimizers make the game harder to run. If your goal is challenging the PCs, you have to work that much harder. If your goal is...

As others have said, it can also be problematic when trying to challenge the party properly. Using too much, challenging the optimized...

Yeah. And it’s worth noting this doesn’t have to be an active thing the optimizer does. Simply having an optimized character in a game...

Monopoly is a lot like thermonuclear war in that the only way to win is not to play at all.

I think there's some confusion here about what "winning" is for exactly. You're focusing a lot on the competitive angle, which I agree...

I tend to compartmentalize the concept like this: A character of mine may "lose" something, like a magic item, a level, or it's "life"...

I mostly run open-world sandboxes. Play lives and dies with player and PC goals. But at no point have my players told me they lost the...

The thing to remember about Fate's Aspects is that they're narrative permissions wrapped in a bit of mechanics. When you do something...

You can lose in a tournament module. (You can, I won't.)