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I can also name a number of non-turn based ones that do so, not all of them AAA games, so its going to be a hard sell its that heavy an...

Though its very hard for that to not turn into criticism in some cases, since you presumably (if you're advocating for the system rather...

Its hard to figure out how to tell, honestly. If you'd have asked me in the 70's or 80's I'd have said D&D was the big dog with most...

Which is why I suggested it. For the most part, bennies aren't particularly distinguishable from something like willpower under the...

Yeah, but I think at this point invoking Edwards is kind of like invoking Gygax on D&D design. Yes, he was influential in the past, but...

We had a kind of ongoing gig in a multi-GM superhero campaign we had many years ago where a number of us had multiple characters, and...

Lets just say the line you're drawing in this case seems awfully idiosyncratic. We're not talking about systems used to do a lot of...

Don't get me wrong; I know some people do have a problem with that, but if that started happening locally I'd, first, try to find remote...

No, I really like to play new games but I will ignore games to spite people I don’t like because I am exactly that kind of petty.

Unfortunately, some people will consider any comparison a value judgment.

I think it can be useful to compare a game to the market leader (D&D in this case), as long as you're not doing it in the form of value...

It wasn't intended to be advice for you in particular; I meant it more as general advice for the others reading this thread, or for...

Don't forget the other side of that, too "<deadly pirate game> is nothing like D&D! How dare you!"

A lot of people also can't handle even the possibility of an implied criticism of a game they like. So even comparing it without...

It can also make entering a dedicated space to talk about even the game there--fraught. I'm very aware of this because even games I...