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What some OSR circles have (unfortunately IMO) taken to mean by skilled play is rather like a narrated-exploratory play loop, appealing...

I posted about this issue a few years ago: D&D General - Railroads, Illusionism, and Participationism

Doors are a huge chunk of Gygax's AD&D rules! If you take out the combat rules, and the rules for door, there are very few rules left...

I wonder if you've ever read Elfs, by Ron Edwards. You might find it interesting. Essentially the characters are dumbass lowlifes, and...

If it looked cool it was for affect If it achieved something it was for effect If you felt ill afterwards it was for infect

As a creator myself, I like “steal” for much the reasons I like “elfgames”: it encourages a good perspective about the innately...

Lew Pulsipher reviewed the rpg Tunnels & Trolls, unfavourably, in White Dwarf #2 (Aug/Sep 1977). His views are consistent with those he...

In Gygaxian skilled play, the mechanics for dealing with doors - detecting them (if they're hidden), listening at them, opening them -...

In Burning Wheel, the rule for failure is this (I'm quoting from Gold Revised p 31; the text on p 34 of Revised is pretty similar)...

Yes, there's a lot of morphing and evolution and sometimes going back, but more cleaned up or more modern mechanics.

A lot of games have multiple dimensions of skill, though - eg in cricket there is batting and bowling. In games that aren't scored -...

Ah, right, I think I got distracted when writing, or maybe short-circuited. He wins against me fairly regularly, but loses hard to...

Although there are also some very interesting (and reasonably influential) games from the late 90s. The two I'm thinking of (admittedly...

With just this statement (leaving off the part about swearing off other systems), I don't even see how you can form an opinion after so...

I have my own gaming system, and that is what I am discussing. I am a former Dnd player, gone self creator. I have abandoned Dnd on the...