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You might like Trespasser? It's got a much more character ability forward combat setup than most OSR games, but a thoroughly explicated...

While trying to find a reasonable priced copy of the textbook Characteristics of Games (George Skaff Elias, Richard Garfield & K. Robert...

I can see this is a serious discussion.

Well now you're into the toolbox vs. self-contained genre option. Personally, I would much prefer a game that is internally consistent...

I think you're catastrophizing a little here. There's usually a little more going on, particularly in a gaming situation where setting...

I have tried, over the past few years, to look at the design from this perspective: Which direction is easiest to move away from, but...

I amended my OP to add "to say nothing of sealing their fate in never getting work in the gaming industry again" as a one-word addition...

That looks a lot more to me like the problem was the monster not having the same number of actions as the party. And as he calls out in...

Fortunately, both online discourse and the industry as a whole have gotten a lot better about explicit design goals over the last decade...

I've come around to making both critique and design in RPGs much more explicit about design goals. We waste a lot of time on "this was...

I get it, I'm still baffled that you can publish an RPG without a skill system, and then people will think it has a skill system...

I think another issue with simulationists that have a low fantasy narrative tint to their thought is that, they have not ever figured...

Well, that's kind of exactly it, isn't it? Fiction as a constrain on design, vs. a tool to explain the design. The problem with D&D's...

To be fair (and acknowledging we have to give a lot of grace if someone was basing a sim perspective on 5e to begin with), the complaint...

Unfortunately for that plan, I think a lot of players are attached to their one particular PC, not that they’re contributing a fraction...