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This is the most effective summary of the divide I've read, on both points. Tying complication to mechanical interaction, instead of...

Oh, I'm aware. I just think some people, particularly in the PbtA adjacent sphere, don't understand how much the baked in "complication...

I've been thinking about what is at the root of this debate. It seems (to me) to be about whether anything is conceded standing as an...

Clearly for Daggerheart, you are. See: OP title ;). Regardless, a Player Best Practices with short punchy descriptions of how to play...

Eh... You can have 300+ spells and still have Psions feel different in their own way. You just need to create a different mechanical...

I wanted to assay a take on each lemma in relation to the mode of play Inviting the GM to disclose setting is important to the...

Consider a locked door. The PCs want something in the room on the other side of the door. The PCs use Stone Shape to make a hole in the...

I'm deeply skeptical of every attempt I've seen to marry gamist and narrativist mechanics. Narrativism seems to thrive when the act of...

I don't think negotiation and iterated gambling are enough to hang a game (in the strong sense) on. You can do risk management well, but...

A more flexible system where you spend a point-based resource to do smaller things, rather than the computer program-like "packages"...

I don't think it's "zero-sum", but I don't necessarily agree with ideas like "a rising tide lifts all boats" or "a strong D&D makes for...

I'd argue that's a pretty shallow way to look at "gamism" (a term I'm frankly pretty suspicious of in both the GNS and GDS senses). See...

I'd argue that's more because gamist games have largely faded out entirely over the same period, or shrunk in scope to narrowly defined...

Personally, I think Perception (and perhaps more controversially, Knowledge) clearly should be defenses. Hidden creatures or things (or...

I think I've explained myself poorly, that's my point precisely. There isn't a standard we've agreed on, and energy/design work is spent...