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It seems to me that you are more focused than that. With respect, I'd say you've lost the forest for the one mechanical tree. What...

I'm solidly pro-manipulation here. My issue is that RPGs are deeply inconsistent about whether or not players should be doing mechanical...

I should expand further about what I actually do like: my preferred kind of gameplay is presenting a difficult, open-ended situation...

I'm not interested in the "characters'" goals here, they're fictional constructs without agency. I'm interested in what the players'...

Very similar experience for me. I've found as the hobby expands, the things I thought were the point are apparently not only not...

My peculiarities are more of a desire for crunchy systems and long campaigns. I tend to go deep on lore, chargen, campaign world...

This is exactly the doublethink I can't seem to do that these games require. Do I or do I not have a goal I am trying to achieve? If I...

I recently got to play a game of Top Secret: New World Order with one of the creators, Jayson Elliott. We were just finishing up a...

I think it's very genre-dependent, and particularly how trope-heavy shows are, for me. There are lots of shows, maybe the majority of...

Set aside single action resolution. Players have a goal related to the current score; how best do they achieve it? What's the minimum...

I quite like not really watching Leverage. It's ideal in the background, checking in and see where they are in the formula or like, sick...

You're missing the salient point here. It's not what the player wants with this one action, it's the goal the player is pursuing across...

I really love her work, which is almost exclusively about media I am not interested in.

I am always interested in excessively long YouTube video essay recommendations! This one has appeared in my YouTube recs before but I...

I think this is just the discoverability problem clashing with widening readership and genre splitting. For a specific kind of reader...