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This is dead wrong. Like laughably wrong. He literally lists the games that inspired him. To the point that he even goes into how...

Yes even if they "tried different things", then the reason they tried 2d6 (and liked it) for sure has to do with PbtA. Sometimes...

Have they denied being inspired by PbtA? If not, then you can't claim that's not what happened.

I never said is was a ripoff ... Maybe some other people had some argument elsewhere and this is just bleed... I am ok with designers...

Do we have a count on how often Rifts has been mentioned as a game that trips over its own cool ideas?

IMHO, there is no way you get 15 years into rpg games and are not influenced directly by PBTA when your game literally uses 6-, 7-9...

Ehh..... more like if 4e and PBTA had a baby. Is it a crunchy game? yes, but not as much as Pathfinder 2e or GURPS. is it...

It was for plenty of others here, i will let you ruminate on that. i am not saying i am gospel truth, but the things i am saying...

You answered a decent part of "why" already :) | v This is why its sloppy, and as the OP questioned, "trips over its self". In our...

My feelings are for Daggerheart = Plays like a game it was not designed to feel like. its generation of Hope and Fear don't work in a...

This is satire, one presumes.

I work with or work for, many of the people who created some of these games, and Vampire is a great example. Design language has...

Making space for the PC's actions to matter is an important part of a setting book. Having dozens of plots and schemes without the...

Such a good point! Yes! Some games can feel like "your character is not needed here" or in worse cases "your character will have no...

Chicago by Night (at least the first one) does a great job of having 1 - NPCs that are doing stuff and 2 - things for the PCs to do in...