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What? Why would he do that?

Degenerate optimisation is a system matters problem, specifically it's either a user error by the group/GM in selecting the wrong system...

“We weren’t kidding about enshittification.”

I've run two free-form murder mysteries. One I adapted from an old Traveller module; I wrote up the 3 player characters and played the...

Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide. One of the blue book softcovers supplements for 2e. A really useful, approachably written guide...

I think White Wolf's achievement in getting close to D&D is much more impressive than Paizo's. White Wolf brought in a new audience to...

Things can get weird because a lot of Narrativist best practices aren't actually best practices and what gets ported between games is...

My point is that D&D is not a very "simulationist" game: it has lots of mechanics that don't take much input from the fiction, and that...

I don't think anyone is saying it's authoritative. But we already have only very questionable evidence that Pathfinder ever outsold 4e...

Also wikipedia (which I'm a contributor to, and help run) tells me it's an appeal to authority, which is a logical phallusy

I’d like to agree, but I’m very busy and you failed to persuade me in your first paragraph. I can only assume that you’re and wrong as a...

Except that--as we have said before--that's not how narrative games actually work. To begin with, most of these games don't have a...

Yes. If Pathfinder had ever actually outsold D&D Paizo would have shouted it from the rooftops, right? What a marketing angle! To beat...