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You know, it's funny because I think I usually get the opposite branding, despite being about as allergic to "rulings" conceptually as...

I'll cop to being such a person. I hate rule of cool because I find it leads to a game that lacks consistency in tone and adjudication...

I think system matters, but I do agree. Not to harp on the BitD community, but a prevalent attitude I've seen is how they will insist...

I think Clair Obscur is much more evidence that if you build the best game you can that you want to play than the audience will come.

Right, I'm with you here in that I draw a hard line between content and action resolution. I want plenty of guidance from a game on what...

It would add predictability to resolution for players in cases where the GM isn't as good at being consistent in his decisions as he...

No, it used to be a pretty specific term before reactionaries co-opted it. Now it’s a dog whistle and a rhetorical tool that is vague by...

I think @Charlaquin 's point is that subjectivity you mentioned is often retrospective. Like a game is "putting diversity first" until...

I was making a more general point; though I'm not hostile to behavioral rules (as you presumably aren't completely since you reference...

It's very much still a story you experience instead of one you drive, though the writing is excellent. The gameplay is very satisfying...

Yeah, I'm at 80 allowance, and I'm hovering between 40-50 stars, though maybe I should just spend some runs simply pushing those, and...

I keep learning just how much there is left for me to do, right when I feel close. Loving the puzzles, but at this point I could really...

The underlying disagreement here seems mostly to be not actually about the decision making process, so much as the player relationship...

I think part of what the article is saying is that a lot of publishers believe that the audience for a "tactical RPG" in limited. That...

Long time lurker, first time poster. I realise I'm coming into this late, but a few of the more recent posts have hit on thoughts I had...