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I went with an 8 if 5E is a 6. My goto fantasy is still PF1, but I also stand by Traveller, which is a deal simpler. I can appreciate...

Magics always been a loot box system. Demand exceeded supply so they over printed some sets in 1994. They were still on the shelf...

I am building rapport with them in attempt to get them see things in my way, consort or sway? Yes, but this also is not a game that...

Well, the pitch itself for one, plus all the rules about how you may or may not make contact with other players as you run. Possibly...

More relevant to this discussion, I think both storytelling and performance belong largely to that category. RPGs can be games, but they...

Not when I use it. I'm quite happy to take Suits' definition: I don't really hold with the notion of "non-Suitsian" games, I just think...

See my post. Without some rules and resolution as far as I'm concerned, its not a roleplaying game, its just freeform roleplaying that...

I play a lot of board games. My favorites are the heavier economic games, your 18xxs and Splotters, with the occasional dash of a...

See, that's sort of exactly what I'm taking shots at. I used contract bridge, a very old and very popular game as an example, and this...

You're describing the approachability or obviousness of a heuristic. Players will find those first or faster, but if they aren't...

So this reads to me as describing designer intended player heuristics in play. Players, when encountering a game will strive to find a...

I think those two issues are conflated routinely. The sense of "immersion" meant by "the mechanics get out of the way and I forget I'm...

I really miss the creativity of late 3.5. The Tomes of Magic and Battle, Incarnum, the Races of N series. Just tons of cool stuff. I...

I’d say there are 3 big reasons for this. 1) if the player base gets a even a whiff that a new edition is being worked on sales of the...