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Given a number of things you've said in the past, I have some question about that first clause.

Ideally. But that word is doing some massive lifting here; I don't think I've ever seen a GM who conveys that sort of thing in a...

I'm sorry that you seem to stagger through life with no awareness of the risks inherent in what you do, or any judgement of potentially...

They were coming out of the disco era. Its only to be expected.

As I noted, sometimes the implication may not be clear until you're on the spot, however. I had one time in an RQ game years ago when I...

Though occasionally when the tone is such, it can be a resigned acknowledgment that you're stuck between playing your character true to...

Sleeping, farting and quietly murmuring. That’s a happy dog.

The problem with “IC-authenticity” as a play virtue is that it’s completely unprovable that anyone actually does it. Any declared...

Oh, all the time. You think some description is so clear but somebody missed a word or you got a little too long winded or your phrasing...

That's largely what Chill 3e does with a lot of rolls; since so much of the game is about gathering information, a roll even vaguely in...

You'd at least need a sharply finite number of possible answers for it to be useful.

I'd suggest because its too determinist, and generally deterministic mechanics with that much impact aren't popular. People sometimes...

I can give some individual suggestions when the topic and game systems is at hand, but I can't say I have a general principal beyond...

I rather cynically refer to this as "using a wrench as a hammer", but even my comment acknowledges that you can force a system to handle...

I grow my hair out and when I get tired of it I sometimes have fun..."let's try a mohawk". I'm probably a bit too old for it lol but...