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But if they don't even match reality it's hard to have a discussion

Rubbish

I'm simply going to laugh at the idea that Apocalypse world has few meaningful choices during character generation. And then try to work...

That's why I said degenerate. 'Fighters should have high strength, weapon specialisation, and maybe throw darts' is optimisation but...

The rolls etc happen at the table. Not in the fiction. The rolls affect what we at the table agree to imagine together. They don't...

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...