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My personal preferences shape at least some of what I post (see, eg, references to Burning Wheel and Prince Valiant). But I try to do...

Because you are only interested in what you think, and that's not interesting or informative. Step outside of that narrow little place...

The only person here who's concerned with personal preferences is you.

I know, ain't no-one got time for that.

Ugh having to imagine all those things sounds positively exhausting!!!!

The fighter in my game was mostly using a polearm, and was based around reach, forced movement, and multi-/area attacks - so Come and...

I think my approach - especially for party play like 4e D&D - is heavily influenced by Claremont X-Men.

Everyone plays for different reasons and with different goals, so i am not saying you are playing wrong or anything. But, this sounds...

When I'm reflecting on RPGing, I find it helpful to distinguish between mere colour/flavour, and fiction that actually matters to the...

'No, no, all the edition changes that sidelined other people's playstyles were fine, it's only the one that sidelined my playstyle that...

Wow. No. It was a new edition with new rules. People are welcome to use those new rules or not, but the implication that people were...

I think an important thing that happens in this space is that people use their own imagination to fill in the gaps between and around...

The fiction isn't "just flavor" though, it's the backbone of the experience? It is how close something is to happening. How likely...

So HmtW doesn't use HP it has something more like damage levels - stressed (like a freebie), talents get damaged and you lose access to...

One thing I often like to suggest to people who... I don't know feel daunted by the prospect of having to invent a bunch of stuff on...