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1) This thread is over 800 pages long. Do not expect everyone to have seen your magic hat example. 2) While maybe you make all random...

Because its going to vary from game to game, and some of it is just being more specific. Without knowing what games a given reader and...

And there's me collecting and playing Warhammer since the 90s, while also hamming it up in Red Dragon Inn.

Oh, also, if what I've answered so far seems "vague" to you, no others I give are likely to be more satisfactory. I think I've been...

I more or less responded to this in a later post. I completely disagree that the kinds of things you'll see in most games most of the...

Its not the categorization I have an intrinsic issue with (though I think JConstantine has it right that Edwards really didn't...

And there you are. As much as possible, both Pedantic and I do. My view is having to go outside the rules to resolve something is a...

Yeah, but the difference here is that I've not found any hardcore narrativist games I actually like; in some respects their design...

Yeah, but this problem predates Edwards; all that's changed is how people categorized each other. It just used to be the Wargamers...

The rules that don't permit them. If the procedure for jumping is laid out, it is not given the GM to tell me I can or cannot jump over...

There are people who would argue just what you say about at least the latter end, and there would have been people who'd have argued...

Well, I lean into the game end a fair bit too, its just a bit more admixed in my case than I get the impression is the case with you. I...

Ones that require less judgment calls, which is primarily what I've been talking about from the start. Alternatively, one where the...

They definitely used the MGT1 OGL as a framework, but it's primarily CT. I haven't done a thorough analysis, so I could easily be...

See my comment about constantly being lumped in with the more narrative group just because I share a couple positions with them. The...