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Knowledge checks: should be defenses; they're ultimately the same thing as perception, and allow players to shift resources from action...

I'm not who you asked, but I really like this question. I think time spent can be a consequence, because I think time is a resource that...

For me the question, though, is whether those potential consequences cause the player to weigh other options (e.g. dodging, etc.) or if...

That doesn’t seem denigrating to me. A lot of TTRPGs could benefit from being as thoughtfully designed as a lot of modern board games.

Yes, exactly. It's the presence of other options that makes the decision interesting.

I don't mean the consequences are trivial; I mean the decision of whether or not to attack is. It's a no-brainer. But the example is...

Somehow missed this. That's still not quite what I'm talking about. In the approach I'm describing checks need to have risk. There...

Yeah, I get that. Because that's been the theory for pretty much the history of RPGs, right? But...I don't think it's really very...

I think you're just identifying aspects of social media you dislike (and which many people also dislike) and labelling those as social...

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Blades in the dark calls them successes--in that graphic upthread, they're not in the "bad outcome" bundles--and tells the players they...

Well, mixed outcomes almost never feel exactly like success to me, which means games that intentionally center that outcome in the...

It's a very gamist way of playing, which is fine for many people. But it often feels like an artificial constraint imposed by the game...

What precisely are you talking about? I've made quite clearly opinion marked points about the design impacts of various choices, and...

So a similar game space to a co-op game like Pandemic, just with more options and variability.