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....was I supposed to? I quibble pretty aggressively with how "gamism" is conceptualized in the first place, and I mostly disagree about...

What? No you don't. It's quite possible you have no agency in any of those situations, if there was no way to know anything about what...

I checked out a little bit when we starting throwing around immersion as I've long since settled on a perfectly workable technical...

I've gone back and reread True Sorcery recently, and wow am I full of nostalgia. I always wanted to try a game built around that casting...

Fundamentally, 3e is a massive design task. I just don't know that anyone wants to do it again, for what is now a tiny and shrinking...

See, this is a perfect example of the problem, as I think several of those things are incompatible with the underlying 3e design ethos...

I'm sorry? You seem to have just randomly appropriated a term someone else defined to make a specific point? The whole point of that...

I've never found this argument compelling, because you can get usually get far enough on what's ruled out to have a gameable state. If...

I think the core problem is that whatever "AI" programs create, it's tainted by being based on material they don't have rights to. That...

Scaling feats are absolutely one proposed solution that floated around. Other ideas included simplifying prerequisites down to strictly...

That we're not particularly good at it has really no bearing on whether it's useful and produces interesting gameplay, especially when...

HOW TO HIRE ASSASSINS I won't bash no-myth here but there is an issue. The issue is that the following three things are radically...

The thread has largely moved on, but this discussion tickled something in my brain, and reminded me we've had a similar exchange before...