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I prep a bunch of material but I try not to be married to it and I'm a good ad libber.

Have you seen 24 Hour Party People? It's a sort of biopic of Factory Records, Joy Division, the Hacienda, New Order, Happy Mondays, etc...

A truly faithful adaptation of the book would get us pretty close. ;)

Terms like thematic or focused design vs broad or generalist design can, I think, cover the differences in intention by the designers...

I would liken early D&D to a carpentered box. The initial design might not have been particularly planned, it was made from offcuts...

Yeah. I think 'intentional' is a pretty good descriptor of this but I agree that the antonym 'aimless' is pretty unfair. 'Curated'...

Ironically this offers a good source of distinction. When a 'modern' game has lots of players or releases it is a victim of a syndrome...

Naw... There is absolutely no functional difference between what WW calls a ST vs what D&D calls a GM. Neither system has mechanics...

Today if I see underline, I want to click it.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it. But it is impossible to get a...

This is why I tend to refer not so much to "modern games" as "post-Forge games". The actual Forge games are barely remembered and a lot...

I have suspicion that what's really being seen here is the tendency of Forge-derived games and their descendants to drill down on a...

Literally the post I responded to said that the points exist in the fiction

You don't get to determine what the conversation is about, and force all discussion into your false binary. You have spam responded to...

I have to drink quite a lot just to get through the day at work, some of my passengers get really upset about it