pemerton's latest activity

When I have suggested keeping this kind of thing brief in the past (earlier in this very thread, though likely weeks ago now), you...

Yeah, all I'm saying here is that your envelope as Little Lord Fontleroy is a bit different shape than that of Sam the Gardner, but they...

That more noise is made on the failed attempt... enough to alert someone nearby. Similar to a stealth roll. I don't think either of...

It should be not boring, though. That's the idea. But please... make the case for boring and then criticize us for saying your game's...

What is this "turn" you speak of? ;)

Max… if someone makes a noise and another person hears it, that’s a direct result. Adding in a bunch of game steps doesn’t change that...

I think the notion of "additional requirement" is misplaced. See this post: That is exactly the sort of thing that could be said! "The...

See the edit to my post that you quoted.

The sensible thing for Luke to do would not have been to listen to the old wizard and go off to try and save the princess. Instead, he...

I think we should be careful to avoid confusing playing game as game with playing game as game in the way we are used to. Scene framing...

I do not think that games like Monsterhearts or Apocalypse World expect you to play irrational characters. I think they expect you to...

If you look through the first couple of pages of this thread, you'll see plenty of examples of this usage.

Even more specifically: it's not left there dangling as a sentence and a "ok cool, figure out how to do this." It's defined with...

Apocalypse World works around a soft move/hard move structure. Burning Wheel works around intent + task resolution. These are ways of...

Of course. I quoted Edwards talking about pages detailing military hardware. I drew the analogy to Warhol's Sleep. I have repeatedly...