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CyberPunk 2020 is a good example of design and mechanic working to empower a theme and gameplay. :D I am not sure what version you are...

No, you are incorrect. Synnibarr has no such GM limiting mechanic. Fate (the GM) literally has a sentence that says "Fate has...

Naw... There is absolutely no functional difference between what WW calls a ST vs what D&D calls a GM. Neither system has mechanics...

I entirely agree, how we got from there to here is very much relevant. In fact, I think your point is salient to the emergence of a...

This is why I tend to refer not so much to "modern games" as "post-Forge games". The actual Forge games are barely remembered and a lot...

This ^ this is the point I was mostly making. Modern mechanics are about that fact that there are rules being used in new ways to...

First off, degrees of success have absolutely nothing to do with my post. maybe you meant to quote someone else? Second, now that you...

I am stating that Burning Wheel and other such games are obscure, not mainstream, and don't do any of the mechanics I suggested as well...

What I think of as Modern are mechanics that are refined and put up front in ways they never were before, or used to a higher degree...

This is 100% our same experience when we played last night ^ It felt minis skirmish game style, reminded me of Necromunda plus the...

There was definitely a bit of "new game with a lot of tags/keywords/rules" to work through tonight, but we had a lot of fun wading in to...