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"Should be" is not a term I ever used. I just said there are practical reasons that works that way, same as there are reasons D&D is as...

Fragged Empire does it reasonably well, though as you say, they're very focused on one-on-one fights.

I'm sorry, I really can't see the Technocracy as more wild than the followers of the Mad God. Heck, I don't even consider them more...

I don't think that disproves my point though at all - in fact that's what I said - the only time RPGs typically go more than 10 years...

Not the criteria all of us are using. I'm often talking about what I believe is probably beneficial to the majority of players. I...

Yeah, that's pretty unusual.

Part of that is because SJG has stopped viewing it as its primary product line quite some time ago.

I don't know anything intrinsic to sandbox play that ties it to encounters or the like and forbids purely session based advancement...

I really appreciate that Daggerheart has been up front with its expectations here as well. It’s designed to be a heroic fantasy game...

Unless you're getting into the Buffy-adjacent games or Conspiracy X that's most of them. They had some other plans (a broad-band supers...

That's true but there are companies who are at least at the high-end cottage industry end, and those people have to pay attention to how...

I think I saw SplatterCat do a intro Let's Play/review of that back when it was in pre-release; it looked interesting.

Comics have done the equivalent on and off for decades.

No, I think you miss the basic point: Properly priming the players, so that they have enough information, but not too much, and retain...

What I mean is that they play very similarly because other than the Technocracy, they have the same in-setting issues and problems...