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Well, I was commenting on what @Micah Sweet shared, and his exchange with @TwoSix . But if you don’t think they’re necessary, that...

Yes - this seems pretty obvious to me! Quite.

Surely you can chain multiple flips together over a sequence of play. OK the orc runs at you with a vicious serrated blade. [Player...

But you can accomplish everything you’ve said without game mechanics. Is it the uncertainty? Those moments when we’re not sure how...

Here's a character sheet from Cthulhu Dark: Name: Jack Occupation: Longshoreman I GMed a session of Cthulhu Dark where someone played...

But can't the GM just introduce (eg) a new spell, and then say that the NPC (or whomever) learned it via spell research? I mean...

I don't like the term Free form. Every Free form game has system mechanics, principles, agendas and best practices, even if they aren't...

I assume that you are talking here about the action resolution mecanics. But not, for instance, the rules about who gets to say what. I...

Well, I agree with you, but that's not the world we live in, and if it was we wouldn't even have a 3e to preserve against 4e.

Why do people who want to stick with the old edition need to buy the new edition? What's the point of a new edition other than to do new...

Why not? Why can't the ice cream maker decide to serve only strawberry now?

The problem here is that assumes that playstyle preferences are some immutable thing that can't change over time.

I've always found it weird that people who enjoyed aspects of AD&D/3E D&D but didn't enjoy 4e D&D regard themselves as having been...

I'm probably being too broad there, let me dial that rhetoric back a little. Obviously we all have preferences and those will inevitably...

Keep in mind that we're talking about your goofy hot take on 4E here. If someone agrees that 4E was slanted and exclusionary on purpose...