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I mean, I do think demonstration of character concept has become a pretty central of play goal of OC/neotrad-style play, the type of...

I did once trick one of the friends I play with into reading it. He cursed me afterwards. But we both did agree that we were at least...

Well, my post upthread located social mechanics within the broader context of mechanics in general; and located mechanics within the...

Going back to December, you had scarcely heard of "opinionated" applied to games, and now you're trying to tell me what it means like...

No one said they are. No one (but you, misquoting) said that no one would ever choose such things. But no one would have chosen them...

@Bill Zebub My examples include social/mental/emotional mechanics and social/emotional consequences: * A player submitting his PC to...

In my experience (and outside of Revised Sorcery), dice pools with more than 6 or 7 dice in them from skills, FoRKs and help, aren't...

An RPG that handles this nicely, in my view, is Cthulhu Dark. PC building consists in choosing a name and an occupation/profession. The...

Here's an example, from Rolemaster play, that I just posted in another thread: Left to our own devices, no one at the table would have...

Or to switch mythos to one closer to the way modern D&D paladins work it's as legit to want to play Obi Wan Kenobi as Anakin Skywalker

I'm not @pemerton either, but, to quote Vincent Baker, it's "things that no vigorous creative agreement would ever create" -- "outcomes...

Not pemerton so I can't speak for him, but one difference between 'choosing stuff [that happens]' and 'choosing to do stuff' might...

I think (or at least hope) that it was clear enough that by "stuff" I meant component/elements/events of/within the shared fiction. "To...

Fun idea = start with blank paper, then just run an adventure for your group. No character sheets, no rules, not even set dice. As you...

Note that you've added two things to pemerton's words - you've added 'ever' when he said 'here and now', and you've added 'choose to do'...