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If you have only done something 2 or 3 times over 15 years, why would you even bother making a formal mechanic for it? Your argument...
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Okay, so it's a meta currency. Nothing particularly unique about that. Some systems have it, some don't. Awarding negative meta...
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I agree. Negative stimuli are not nearly so good a teacher as people seem to think.
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I would very much say so, yes. Apocalypse World and many PBTA games are entirely different play styles nd Gm styles than...
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Most PbtA games, for example, use adventure fronts and various countdown equivalent, which are precisely things happening in the...
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Will do, my apologies.
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Mod Note: This & your other recent posts in this thread have been more confrontational in their rhetoric- especially some of your...
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Quantum torpedoes are axiomatically a blast! 😜
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I think the general ideas being mushed here is design language vs just describing roleplay. They are not the same, but the words are :P...
Feb 1, 2026
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Is the quite working? seems the site lost the quote.... I will add back in "Zakel19 said The core of the ideas is that you don't have...
Feb 1, 2026
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No, you are adding words together wrong here. A better example is not the overall 'we play to see what players do" = i mean, that's...
Feb 1, 2026
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Except again, you are not actually saying anything correct. The above statement fundamentally does not understand what Play to Find...
Feb 1, 2026
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No. This is not correct at all. Play to find out is at its very core about "limiting GM fiat and preparation". Its about NOT doing...
Feb 1, 2026
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Ehhh... None of this is Play to Find Out either... or at least, its not correctly addressing what my post said. "Players should be...
Feb 1, 2026
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Sooo... FYI... absolutely none of this is "Play to find out." :) GM knowing info ahead of time about anything = removes 'play to find...
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