Recent content by soviet

So, all art, all movies, all TV, all books, all RPGs other than yours, are immoral?

A lot of indie style games these days openly list their references and inspirations. It's a good thing to be influenced by other creators, and to acknowledge that.

Just to be clear, your position is that art that takes inspiration from other art is immoral?

How is 'anytime you resist my plot hooks, the game immediately ends' not also railroading?

You think rules light games lack substance but the only ones you've ever played have been made at home? Bold of you to make definitive statements about the whole category then.

Well, I don't think many people have entered the hobby through doorways other than D&D, licensed property RPGs, or friends who already play (having been recruited by D&D or licensed property RPGs). I don't disagree, but to my mind the metric is 'number and variety of games being produced and...

Do we mean a golden age for the hobby or for the industry? Million dollar kickstarters reflect the latter but maybe not the former. People buying books that they never play (or, occasionally, that never get produced) doesn't mean much.

Which ones have you played?

English as it's meant to be spoken.

I don't think that all people sometimes act in bad faith.

I wish there were any current events that showed the problems with giving one person ultimate power but I'm struggling to think of any examples.

You're disagreeing with something I didn't say. GP = XP doesn't make the game about getting gold. It (without a corresponding weight of kills = XP) makes the game about solving the dungeon without necessarily fighting the dungeon. I agree that the rules (and the benefits from levelling up) are...

I agree that these things are vesitigial now, and have been vestigial for a long time (certainly back to 4e, and probably 3e to a large extent as well). I don't agree that 'kick down the doors and fight the monsters, lather rinse level up repeat' is what D&D has always been about. I don't...

Existing things redefined literally: Dust of Disappearance ('Oh, it's gone') Turn Undead ('Brains...') Cloudkill ('Take that, you dirty cumulonimbus!')

I understand all of this. I was trying to characterise what strict TR looks like in response to someone who broadly denied it existed.