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Ugh I hate this, face me while you're describing the situation goddammit! 😉

Wait are you just a Buddy GM? 'Yes player, the sewer goblin gives you a sword +1 in tribute'.

I've seen it. Not for hours on end... but I don't think it takes hours for it to be disruptive or counterproductive (assuming that not...

Riffing on random things the players get interested in is like 80% of my gameplay.

That normalization is explicit in the opening pages of Daggerheart. Though cut for greater brevity, in one draft of my post, I included...

Misaligned PbtA games have already been mentioned. Same is true for FitD games. People don't necessarily understand why the original...

To me, it seems that a RPG can have an opinion, or an intent, even though it doesn't set out to have one. I say this not to disagree...

Indeed. I have only given contrasting examples to highlight where older design concepts (such as pass /fail or Gm fiat) are being...

Thing is Monsterhearts is not a tool - it's a game. Someone say using a Cortex Drama hack to play a game with a similar premise is not...

I don't follow. Nobody is claiming that any given game should be able to accommodate anyone's full totality of wacky ideas. So there...

Well yes, when you selectively quote and remove the context of a post by doing so, you can then interpret things differently than...

@pemerton expressed my thoughts so well that what follows amounts to footnotes. Forge philosophy relies on intent but is also...

So I can't speak for other people, but.... I think the idea of this thread was "mechanics". So I think it's a very strong argument that...

IMHO, the Daggerheart core "engine" has a lot of potential as a basis for other games (see PbtA, FitD, etc.), but I'm not necessarily...

Well, I also explained why newer is better in this context. And hey, at least I'm trying to add to the conversation instead of endlessly...