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I'm knocking on the door of 50 and the biggest problem has been eyesight slowly going. I'm pretty physically active so that's not an...

I'm curious, since I've sometimes looked around: is this the only RPG forum you use, and if not, where else do you hang?

I know its inevitable, and becomes more and more likely as a thread goes on, but people really need to make more effort to avoid...

Derivation. And honestly, You have to be really selective to say much about D20 games that covers all of them; consider that M&M 3e is...

My family ages pretty gracefully. Mom & Dad will make 80 next year, and strangers usually think they’re in their 60s. People asked me...

Though you run into the issue that its hit or miss how well a thread about games that aren't well known will take off, since the...

Well, in my case I think its malformed, butting together two things that I absolutely don't think are normally part of a common agenda...

While the line is fine, part of it is that the degree to which people could actually discuss them as phenomena in-setting varies...

I do agree with this sentiment. I have no strong opinions on its value, but fail forward is just a technique and it can be misused or...

Well, honestly, they can be used for either and often are used for both at the same time (i.e. improving success at a critical moment).

There's a fair bit of that baked into some elements of Pathfinder 2e, and it didn't seem to break anything.

Yet there are other, different, people who find those games to be too "boardgamey". The variance in perception is kinda wild.

I'd argue most narrative-support mechanics are somewhat gamist (and I should know, far as I know I essentially invented an early one...

The problem is that it not only abstracts it, but in ways that spit up counterfactuals if you press on it at all hard. AC only works in...

Yes, I use this quite a bit as well, but in this case my grammar for how to correctly apply this wasn't strong enough. I am not native...