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Really? Success is always a good performance? Or could it simply be the audience is more receptive? Or could it be other factors? Is...

Sorry, clicked respond on the first part without reading the rest, but, this point needs addressing? In what way would you possibly...

I don't know. I think that's undervaluing the level of work that went into creating Runequest.

I disagree with basically everything @Faolyn just said. Will have more to say later.

@AlViking Narrative focus would be better, addressing premise would be best (for Apocalypse World at least). Like there is more than...

As a sidenote, when GMs make decisions in games like Apocalypse World and Monsterhearts "the story" is not part of the agenda. Quite the...

In Dungeon World there is complete asymmetry. The rules (basic moves and the like) only apply to player characters and the rules that...

How can an episode of play of Marvel Heroic RP be wrong from the perspective of D&D? That doesn't make any sense to me! That would be...

Everyone else, even people on your side of the argument, has understood what I said. Well done standing on your own.

Well, let's start by "are we both playing the game." And no, from your post it sounds like you have not played it yet, so.... Listen...

We had a fairly equal distribution between Success with Hope, Success with Fear, Failure with Hope and Failure with Fear. That...

@Hussar didn't say that simulationist mechanics must produce results in the way that they are produced in the imaginary world. He did...

Every RPG system that isn't terrible produces results consistent with the imagined world. But that doesn't mean they are all...

That's only half of the issue though isn't it? You still have the player knowing that according to the rules of the game jumping off...

/edit to add BTW, @clearstream - the way you narrated the falling damage is exactly the same way I would do it. Totally fine. But...