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For the people who like to play the way I am talking about, it is player skill. I'll give an example. Suppose the party enters a new...

There were almost no purely player facing BD&D or 1E materials. It was 99% sold to DMs, except for hapless stuff like the players...

I think there are a lot of issues with the forge’s model. But, I also think it’s important to note that a model’s utility is not...

I don’t care about your interest, but it’s kinda silly to claim that Pirate Borg et al aren’t easier to GM. Simply in regard to time...

it does not need to be a refinement to go in the same general direction, 5e is also still 4th gen in his classification

It surprising the thread's gone ten pages without anyone mentioning the six cultures of play. This reads almost like a vague restatement...

Mike's post deals in generalizations. Just because you can find exceptions doesn't mean that it isn't true. Life is like a scatterplot...

Sure, but if you get through that, or download the sane layout versions, you are looking at what, 4 pages of rules?

That's not what Mearls did. He's saying it's a fourth generation game, not a fifth generation one. Fifth generation games are the...

I think you aren't replying to me?

Your just showing why you quit reading the table halfway through and discarded the rest in favor of hyper focusing on only half of it...

That's a bit backwards and chops off the structure from most of that table. You can see that old table copied into this post where the...

Every time I read that guy’s stuff now, I’m expecting him to wind it up by saying “Now that I’ve laid out the problem…Here’s the...

I think that a lot of the criticism overlooks the point being made & the format that point applies to, Specifically with the 4th & 5th...

Well, it does matter for the industry as a whole. I am not scraping the data from Kickstarter, Backerkit and Gamefound, but it...