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So I can't speak for everybody, but I'm quite literally running two games of Stonetop at the same time. There's no playbook overlap...

Let me push back a bit. I’d like to know if this would be considered a story. Or this? If I submitted either of these to a...

So we are on the same page, this is what kicked off the subthread: What I’m doing during pre-game is more akin to being a travel...

Makes sense. I know my reply is short, but what you just said sounds reasonable. That raises a question I recently asked a friend who...

Back in the '80s, I dropped the AD&D XP system in favor of the following approach. I don’t use all of it anymore, but I still award XP...

This seems like a significant distinction between the different styles of play. To be clear, it is not a downside. To me, it looks to...

I want to point out an inconsistency: I agree with this. "Concerns of the characters" has a broad scope and can encompass many kinds of...

What if you don’t have to spend a substantial amount of time exploring or learning about the setting, yet the campaign is still managed...

Yeah, we’ll have to agree to disagree on that one. I’m more interested in seeing how the players “trash” my setting on their terms. I...

It’s the “devoid of any consideration or input” part that doesn’t reflect how I run things. Player-first RPGs often start with a light...