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This is one of those things I’ve done a kind of 360 on. Bah the GM controls all, all role-playing is the same, just give me the...

Yeah it’s easy with gangs, which also tends to mean the combat is more zoomed out. Have you seen Vincent’s example of the fight for the...

I don't think you have to go as far as Earthdawn. Per the 4e D&D PHB (p 54): Encounter powers produce more powerful, more dramatic...

Agreed re A and C. I think there's a D, or maybe it's a variant of B, where the group expresses a view about what is/isn't possible...

Yeah contra my position on the D&D ranger from a far earlier discussion we had, currency really has to play a part in framing and...

I hate the credibility check but it took me years, and a massive shift in how I gamed, to understand why. We’ve talked a lot recently...

I also think of scenes in terms of how much "momentum"/"trajectory" carries across, and in what sort of way. In a RPG, this can include...

it gets fuzzy doesn't it. I think of scenes as involving conflicts between the characters in the scene. So a scene could take place over...

Where I’m currently at, is I see lots of an approach to system that goes. Game not working > create techniques that deal with the...

So there’s our mutual dramaturgical exegesis. Our understanding of what’s happening in terms of stakes/meaning, how one thing leads into...

How compelling something is, is a different axis to the one I’m talking about. I think. Although to the extent I have a point, it’s that...

Everyone is, of course, entitled to do whatever they wish, but my general feeling is: If your aim is to make great games, make the...

Not to disagree - but the first thought I had, reading your post, is that maybe there is always a degree of risk that what one...

I would add, group understanding and appreciation of the conflicts/stakes in play. Which could be considered a given but I want to make...

If you’re into more simulationist play then the Brindlewood method seems your best bet. The causality of the setting is brought into...