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It adds to the feeling of verisimilitude the players get.

I don't always care about realism as a GM. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. I care about immersion and the world feeling realistic...

Sure. I have just found you meet with more success if you approach it in a positive way. I've been selling non-D&D games for a long...

In GURPS, many disadvantages have control ratings, which you have to roll under in order to resist succumbing to the disadvantage. For...

The magic part is a big factor for some folks. Hardly a lampshade.

They're also more extreme circumstances. If you are charming your players every session, I suspect you'd get complaints that they lack...

I think classic and trad play have stood the test of time in part because it just works for a lot of people. We have more opportunities...

They are limited by external circumstances that the GM narrates. They are not limited internally by what the GM narrates. This is a...

In addition, adventurers are a different breed. They seek out danger and glory, when they hear people screaming and running in terror...

I've come to believe, after a lot of discussion and reading about other systems, that I really don't want anything other than the...

I suspect for some it simply isn't worth spending a bunch of time to get good at a playstyle you're not necessarily excited about anyway.

I understand where you're coming from, but that attitude to me feels like saying your preferences are more important than mine in some...

The stimulus is external. But the mental state is internal. You're letting the system, rather than the player, dictate how the character...

I regularly remind players of things their characters should remember that they don't. If it's been 2 hours for a character but 3 weeks...

I am looking at this section now and to me that reads more like OSR thinking of not worrying about what characters know versus their...