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For an all-encompassing theory, certainly. For what actually gets played, at least at game stores and cons? I think it makes sense...

I think the Six Culture model is better than GNS.

The group in question is still using it. But if you prefer, "Narrative Games" or "Indie RPGs" mean pretty much the same thing...

It was the name adopted by some practitioners for a forum that was active for years. I don't mean it as an insult. The local narrative...

“Storygames” is terrible and doesn’t say anything and is implicitly dismissive in the way “hardcore gamers” derided video games like...

I think that has more to do with the popularity of the game and the nature of RPGs than any particular incoherence of 5e design.

Look, if you have to start your post out with “I mean nothing insulting with what I’m about to say” you probably could’ve done something...

"storygames versus traditional versus OSR" seems simpler and more effective in practice. Less ambitious taxonomies like "rules-light...

Agree. Agree, that it seems like they started with their preferences and then tried to universalize. Ime the majority of players have...

Again, because sometimes nothing happens. If you don't like that in your gaming, you are welcome to have something happen all the time.

Ah, ok. Now I hope I read you correctly, as I think I read this as something I can whole-heartedly agree with. The entire creative...

You know it's ok for you to like 4e without feeling the need to defend it's D&D-ness. No one is arguing it's a bad game in anything...

You say that like the game's publishing history is the only thing that matters to people on this issue.

If that's all that it took, the entire course of gaming history for the last nearly 20 years would have been different.

Granted that according to GNS not all games have to have one creative agenda. But the 25 years since have not shown the insights to be...