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I feel like this is a little reductive or suggests that the Forge was more of a monolith than it was. For BW, by the time of BW...

By "theme" I also have in mind things like what aspects of the fiction will the game make salient? For instance, will emotional...

I remember some time ago you also said that players had threatened you with violence on I think more than one occasion. It does make me...

It's really just pure sim in a wonderful, joyous way. It shows how you can enjoy any creative agenda if the vehicle is designed...

The idea that a table needs to be "controlled", or that players need to be "kept in line", is bizarre to me. Do people have this same...

So much of these kinds of threads is really about who you play with and whether they are engaged with the game.

When you say theme here I'm not sure what you mean. I feel like you mean the ingredients of play - character options, gear, enemies...

I played in -- didn't run -- a RM2 campaign for a long while about 20 years ago. What a blast. Yea, very sim but I really missed that...

That's a nice way to put it, I agree. And I suspect that some critiques of older games that appear to be arguments for better tools are...

Yeah, its probably more accurate to say that the modern period is not so much represented by better tools (which only makes sense from...

How so? Nah. As long as I have even a general idea of what happened, coming up with clues is pretty easy. Then again I haven't watched...

I think what's happened is that new ways of using mechanics have been found and refined, thus essentially creating new playstyles that...

I thought so, but I is also derp :P

I don't follow. Nobody is claiming that any given game should be able to accommodate anyone's full totality of wacky ideas. So there...

I is being silly yes 🙂