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I think what you're saying here is close to @Fenris-77. I was making a different point: that a lot of commentary on "narrative" RPGing...

I can see that.

I think that how the player invests themselves in their character is pretty different. It's a much more active process than the...

For me, probably the most important "gap" between what Baker says, and discussion I often see about "narrative" RPGing, is that...

Here is something Vincent Baker wrote a bit more than twenty years ago <lumpley games: Roleplaying Theory, Hardcore>: After setup, what...

The teaser vid in the OP is a good intro for the vibes. I never played the game myself, but finished reading it these days. What made it...

I can do that in Greyhawk.

Unfortunately I don't know anything about this RPG. What's its about?

Many people tell me that Other Worlds is the best RPG to play when you're not playing D&D, also the designer is apparently very handsome...

I think what you're describing here is a failure of game design. Vampire and Cyberpunk 2020 are great games and I love them both but...

Very few people use the beautiful and magnificently designed Inspiration rules for 5E. Degenerate play!

Well, since you mention "as envisioned by the creators", nearly everyone plays D&D 5e wrong. The creators balanced the math around a...

I have a hard time seeing an electrum best seller as a heartbreaker. It seems to me a key part of the definition from Edwards and common...

Played D&D almost exclusively from 1980 till maybe 2010 or thereabouts. My primary campaign nowadays is in Torchbearer, but the current...

Got me 3 reaction points and made me feel better about myself. :)