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I immediately love this conceptually. Differentiated spellcasting is my favorite underused space in D&D, I would absolutely love all the...

I really wanted to like the Wandering Inn more, but it's a bit too meandering for me. It does that thing where the characters feel like...

Amusingly, I have precisely the opposite problem. I'll take rules for days, but I despise a portal frame narrative. Either the whole...

Left to my druthers, I would go a step further and say "you can't have a game" at all, but that's unnecessarily hostile in this space...

Nothing wrong with that! I also enjoy a rousing game of Robo Rally!

Sure. And I think the narrative critique against that style of play (or why they don't prefer it), can be overly simplified into "The...

I'm leery of talk of puzzles and solutions when it comes to describing gameplay, but that's broadly right. I'm now just reflexively...

I would agree. I mean, the entire point of a fail-forward game with focus on narrative generation is that there is no defined fail...

See, this is a great summation of the ongoing fight about language. That's a narrativist summation of what's happening; I'd propose the...

Right, I don't really think that's a bad thing, so much as the earseeker was a stupid escalation that led to weird results...

I consider it a viable way to do so, at least under some circumstances. I've mentioned the way research and knowledge skills operate in...

@clearstream But also for others, I very much like your perspective on the contrast between scenarios and what is gameful in each...

I feel like this touches a bit on what a game is, and what it should mean to be playing a game. I think it is normally counted essential...

I think mine fall somewhere between James Bond films and heist stories. A big problem presented upfront to a recurring cast of...

I'm not sure how to read any of that as an argument in favor of a fail forward model. Either you're introducing yet more points of...