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I referred to unexpected stuff that no one would just choose here and now, if left to their own devices. I think it's definitional that...

No Wild Shapes or companions were injured in the making of this scene.

Someone had to go there . . . {True story: in one of my long-running RM campaigns, one of the high-level mage PCs had a romantic...

RPGs are games of shared imagining. The agency of those who participate in the game, therefore, is about how they can shape that shared...

So, Burning Wheel is not particularly narrow in terms of premise. As long as characters have beliefs they are willing to fight for...

Yea, that’s a fair critique. I’m definitely influenced by my play groups’ lack of desire to play classical heroic archetypes.

I think it's legitimate to want to play a version of Galahad or Percival or Aragorn, as much as a slightly modernised Lancelot.

Well, they don't use the same rules. They use largely the same PC building rules. But the rules for framing, consequence, preparation...

Druid on druid action, involving two druids who love nature and one another very much, is a beautiful thing. Not tawdry at all!

That cannot really be true, because attacks in the real world can happen in less than 6 seconds, or multiple blows can be done in 6...

How does a fighter distinguish between more attacks because he as used action surge, and just having bad luck in combat or facing a...

So it's wrong to categorize experiences and preferences? If that was any kind of issue then the OSR movement wouldn't have existed...

Why can't you accept that I read the article, read the Neotrad/OC section and realized of my own volition that it speaks to my...

But do they know they have the same level? And do these abilities have in-game names? Is the Fighter literally saying I am taking my...

Does he, really, though? Each Fighter can choose different feats, skills, fighter style, masteries, ability scores. What are the chances...