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AW takes the opposite approach to prep lightly or Blades potential v actual prep. Always do what your prep demands is a must say. Which...

Frankly I see the dislike as more ideological. My experience here is that, at least in this forum, there's no appetite for an...

I am letting 'functional role-playing' do a whole lot of work aren't I. Plus, if my thesis was totally true then it wouldn't matter much...

Leaving aside agreement or disagreement, BY FAR the simplest type of game to run is a dungeon crawl using a system like B/X that is...

Oh I think our styles are fundamentally different, I was just pointing to some similarities. I'll dig in a bit deeper with a somewhat...

I'll cop to being such a person. I hate rule of cool because I find it leads to a game that lacks consistency in tone and adjudication...

People in general massively over rate systems and how impactful they are. In order of importance it's something like: The people you're...

See we're similar in very broad strokes, I agree with a lot of that list, but there's undoubtedly a handful of very important...

Indirectly, yes. The feeling of trust makes players comfortable enough to take risks and be proactive. Because they are proactive, they...

@robertsconley I think I've had a flash of insight that might help me understand you a bit better. When you say the world feels 'lived...

So, when I play Vampire - The Requiem, Dune 2d20, Monsterhearts, Apocalypse World or Sorcerer because the scenarios and world building...

I think "plausible" is best understood as the phrase "follows from the fiction and acceptable to the table." That is, the response /...

And if there wasn't a degree of satisfaction and enjoyment to subjective creative vision in play (either from prep via map and key etc...

I mean, when RPGing - whether as player or GM - one is constantly having to make decisions about what one or more imaginary people do...

It's a weird one because if you ask me how I make character decisions then I'll say something like 'it just feels like what that...