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Why aren't the crunchy games with new ideas being published then?

Agreed. One of the things I like about GMing Rolemaster (and doing the XP calculations afterwards) is seeing how the sausage is made...

As someone who occasionally likes rules heavy games (just not for ttrpg play), when I engage with them, it is because I want to do the...

Talk me through this please. You've been a player in a game run by someone else. The GM has described an encounter, a boss, an area, or...

It seems to me that we already had at least two decades of the hobby dominated by complex games, and in the D&D sphere this has never...

You're saying that you've changed encounters, bosses, areas, treasures as a player?

Note for note that same thing happened to me. The guy was convicted of criminal conduct.

This morning, I was walking down the street and I was hit by a violin, then a clarinet and then a french horn. I think it was an...

Take the time travel, spend your life training as a badass and recruit other badasses, wait for the meeting with the man with the time...

Pre-written adventure paths certainly do this, yes. But so does making the GM the absolute arbiter of absolutely everything. Telling...

All I can say, then, is that it is self-evident that (a) this is a practice, and (b) this practice is fairly widespread, even if it is...

Seems to me that this is an agenda. Now, we can't just be making a point about approaches and their flaws. We have to be identifying a...

I'm really sorry that the forum rules or local bylaws where you are make it mandatory for you to participate in discussions you consider...

Let's grant that this is true. It doesn't tell us very much about railroading. How did the GM decide what scenario to describe? Or what...

Not everyone lives in the US, not even everyone that's been gifted $10 million. However, it is true that any income can in principle...