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shrug If you say so. I've discussed this before, and in other contexts, so it's not worth arguing about. I think people misunderstand...

I feel like we're talking past each other. The GM fudging point is orthogonal to what I'm talking about; the sentence I quoted above...

I don't actually see a contradiction. All of your examples turn over agency to chance; the player does not know and cannot force an...

I've taken to reading it as an admonition, instructing players not to care about making a specific state come to pass.

I'm honestly not sure what people mean when they say 'play to find out what happens', I've seen it used in a load of different ways...

So, upthread I mentioned that I don't think I think much about mechanics being modern or not, but that design might deserve that kind of...

One of the most compelling inventory management systems I've seen comes in the computer game Darkest Dungeon - for those unfamiliar it's...

But seriously, to me it seems people are mostly just throwing around disconnected bits of mechanics. I think one needs to start by...

Just finished my re-read of Thud!, which is another Pratchett-at-his-peak Discworld novel. And sadly, the subject of...

Unfortunately, my lived experience is very different. I'm down with your design goal to inject variety, but I think the current state of...

Sounds halfway to the Pathfinder Adventure Card Game. I think neutral deck searching/depletion is a bad mechanic generally, but if you...

I think you'd get a lot of the way there by more aggressively loading up weapons with perks and dropping specialization bonuses. If...

Moving to an actual piece of bad visual design: it's a little awkward that the rules for concentration ask you to cover them with the...

I’m honestly quite stunned that anyone would be utterly clueless what hit points or health tokens are in a rpg game, especially when...

It might be interesting to add a shared shop of cards, instead of a random draw, to give players a little more control.