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I absolutely love these kinds of board games. However none of them hold a candle to TTRPGs when it come to provide the kind of...

I notice that Stonetop states that the setting book is intended for GM rather than players. It seems that there is going to be fiction...

It allows me to understand what other people see in things, even if they aren't to my taste.

Right, but mostly we seem to design discussion as a rhetorical proxy for arguing our baseline assumptions should be normative of TTRPGs...

I look at it this way. Saying "this technique works if you use Assumption A. This same technique fails if you Assumption B." is...

Or alternatively, "Using this technique actively works against things I and people like me want out of our gaming experience" without...

Hardly news to you, but I've been banging on for a decade now that skill challenges are a terrible game. Great narrative pacing...

Flavor and concept wise, the Binder from 3E's Tome of Magic. I love it when an edition gets experimental in its late stages and the...

I'd suggest that's a definitional issue; I'd certainly consider succeeding at what my character is trying to do winning, and I'd bet...

I'm doing no such thing. I'm pointing out a consequence of fail forward design, a thing it cannot do, not offering advice on how a game...

Yes, exactly. But that’s why you reference experts, they have access to the evidence to support the claims they’re making. But I’m not...

We're going around in circles and I think I'm not explaining myself well. My whole point is that fail forward design structure can...

That's precisely the problem though; I want the player to force events to unfold in a desired way. If the game can always continue from...

You know, I think part of my issue might simply be the number of characters. I do a lot better with slice of life when the perspective...

I'll reconsider it! I'd pushed it off the list for the portal fantasy reasons listed above.