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I don't understand this angle. All that matters is the subjective experience of the players here, not the immaterial nature of the...

I don't really care? I'm more interested in exploring the what's and how's of what turns people off and working backwards to a design...

While its a bridge too far for me, you won't hear me say its not a consistent position. Though I'm not sure I think the proper term is...

That would be a fertile area of investigation; we could do more of that, and less of trying to find the angle that allows us to declare...

We might break this down in a more clear way. For the orc in a fight - all the abstracted events (dodging, footwork, and so on) that...

Ironically, I thought PrCs were one of the best ideas in 3e; it was just the execution was often, shall we say, lacking.

Right, I'm probably in the only deconstructions superhero bucket. You can find me 10 years ago claiming that superhero stories aren't...

I wanted to jump back to this point, because I think it's where a significant element was moved outside the thing under question. The...

Interested, but the unofficial English translation is already very, very, good. The fans set the bar pretty high.

I see you've somehow acquired it my yet-to-be-published game, Skin Suit, the RPG. You'll be hearing from my lawyers, sir.

And noone told me! Are you saying that all those wonderfully moments I had, witnessing the cool ideas my players came up with unfold in...

Right, which is why I narrate all player actions as the outcome of a small army of bugs that follows them around, puppeting their PCs...

I feel that the GM fixing rarely occurring edge cases and unusual interactions on the fly is fine, but if the normal base execution of...

I also found this point confusing. The point of the mechanic is to say what happens. How and why are design level questions that guide...

I am a bit confused about this. When I have been doing simulations, the how things act is generally coded into the simulation, the...