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Yeah, I like a certain degree of technical manual to my fantasy.

I certainly couldn't do it. Superhero settings just crumble under any examination, I struggle to maintain the correct mindset. There's...

By all evidence to date, you either want to bash people into your exact definition of what that accounts or put on a facade that's what...

I’ve just chalked his posts down as coming from an alternate reality, since pretty much everything shared is like totally opposite or...

I mean, this is always the problematic bit. It being inevitable doesn't make it any more desirable, and getting told you should simply...

I'm mostly just annoyed that design and creative authority are so closely linked in the zeitgeist. I want more complete and better...

Agreed. As I've mentioned before, my own views on RPGs shifted fairly dramatically based on conversations I've had on this site about...

I've always just leaned in and assumed the mechanics do what they say they do. Fighters jump off cliffs. It's easier to reify the...

Bluntly, you're reading this in as negative a fashion as is possible. Like I said, there's no hostility involved in that, its just...

This comes down to a matter of priorities. Among gamers, as in many other fandoms, there are at least four distinct categories: 1...

Right, I'm definitely diverging, mostly I want to point out this isn't a discussion with binary poles. That being said I think it is...

He didn't say against the GM. He said against "GM generated content". Pedantic is heavily gamist and is interesting in setting things...

To be clear, I'm not a PC vs. GM guy, I don't view that relationship as antagonistic. The GM is simply responsible for the board state...

I'm in favor of very strong rules procedures, especially including skill rules, that are primarily designed for players to deploy...

I think a communication issue is here around “realistic”. We’re (we being this loose confederation of narrative game enjoyers)...