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Somewhere in here we have the simple clash between "games where the character is not merely an extension of you, but modeled separately...

Dusk City Outlaws was essentially designed for this, if you can find a copy

Just wanted to call this out: the normal rule for the parrying property does not use a reaction, parrying is a 1/round ability outside...

I'm sure some would argue the D&D case is a mischaracterization, because there is some principle at play players are probably familiar...

I settle for generic resolution (GM picks difficulty from scale, player rolls appropriate modifier), because it's what's taken over the...

At one point in time I was definitely all about rules over rulings. I was a bit younger and less experienced and had a slew of bad GMs...

First draft is now completed, with all art in place from cover to cover. Once my spouse finishes an editing pass, we can go to...

I generally view this as a cure worse than disease scenario. The critique that a player might not know or understand the board state...

That doesn’t change the fact that I use specific techniques to run a World in Motion campaign. Those techniques fundamentally differ...

In other news, the latest Blue Prince with zero context, having "beaten" the game on Day 19, I'm now on Day 65 and zeroing in on I think...

I would love to see it all go a step further, with the party as the ultimate, collective agent as the norm. This point is mostly...

Actually, if this was a temporary class you eventually replace, it would be a great model for stat fixing, if you wanted to use rolled...

That's just ridiculous on the face. GMs sign up for all kinds of constraints, and clearly go out of their way to design entirely new...

I'd focus on flexibility, and reactive abilities. The everyman fantasy is mostly about surviving when you shouldn't, paper with having...

World of Darkness games?