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Burning Wheel has its first version a bit over 20 years ago - I don't have a copy. The version that brought it to prominence is Revised...

Burning Wheel and Torchbearer come pretty close in terms of rules elements, and have versions/editions that fall within the time span.

I can't comment on anyone else, but when I think of roleplaying, I think of what is distinctive about the play of a RPG from the...

I'll bring my receipts even if it takes me 10 years!

Whoa,flash from the past.

This seems relevant, at least: D&D General - Ben Riggs interviews Fred Hicks and Cam Banks, then shares WotC sales data.

Robin Laws has an essay in the Over the Edge rulebook, called "The Literary Edge". It includes the following passage (on p 193 of my...

Now I'm thinking of it like this: the gamist dungeon and the Pemertonian scene-framing technique are both sort of anti-simulationist...

If the best move invokes the player's fictional position, then no. It is a player's fictional position, as mediated by the (imaginary)...

Seems plausible! But there is also a strong normativity around "munchkin", "optimiser", "power gamer" etc. As if trying to make moves...

FWIW, I think a fair number of players approach APs in a similar way: i.e., "beating the adventure path."

I'm not sure that Simulationism has been the default assumption for a long while or the prevailing agenda of D&D. Dare I say but I think...

"Simulationism" - in the sense that the players of a RPG should have no aspiration beyond experiencing the fiction, as some combination...

In terms of creating an avatar persona, and then making decisions in the game based on my interpretation of how the created persona...

"Fictional positioning" means that the players' position - the moves available to them in the play of the game - depends upon a shared...