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Personally, when someone tells me what they enjoy (or don't), I believe them. I don't assume their opinion is uninformed because it...

Well I do think we are interpreting things differently, but I don't think I misunderstand the Old School primer. I can't speak as well...

Can we maybe not assume that people who publicly feel a certain way actually unconsciously agree with your views and don't realize it...

I haven't played DW. But I'll say that the main justification in my eyes for fixed world gameplay has to do with the fixed nature of the...

Yeah, either directly or indirectly. If they wrote "6 guards on duty" then there should be 6. If they didn't, but they wrote down the...

This is what some of us were saying upthread. Those moments stand out so much, because they are uncommon to rare. The huge moments are...

The GM doesn't choose to withhold information. They decide what information the characters should reasonably have. In D&D if there's...

For the record I have never stated that characters should have more information (in more conventional play) than makes logical sense...

Want to emphasize this. It ties into a point I made before--adding mechanics to this kind of thing makes it so description has less...

That sounds like my son.

I don't agree with that. For a lot of us, there's a rather marked difference between mental and physical. We wouldn't bat an eyelash...

If you raise a concern with the GM and they are dismissive about it that is a cause for concern. I wasn't saying there are no systems...

I think @Lanefan gave a very nice response to this. But to add my thoughts--Ime you get 90% of the way there just by asking. Not every...

Shouldn't a person's agency in life be our standard of agency ? In Hillfolk I can go well beyond what I can do in life simply by saying...

In the majority of cases, I think it's supported by sharing information the character would have access to and hiding information the...