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My wife put one aspect of it in a good way. In the books, your view of all the other characters comes through Murderbot, a sarcastic...

I believe I spent at least two posts acknowledging this problem. Not the cases I'm talking about, What if I don't care at the moment...

I think its situational, but a lot of the cases I agree; its not only gamist, its sloppy gamism that could be done other ways. (There...

Personally I'm not a fan of no re-tries unless the fiction informs the no-retry. I'd argue the no-retries principle is gamist not sim...

"I don't like a thing, so I don't want anyone else to experience it, even if they love it." Come on, man.

The latter can still be both true and undesirable. The fact some people like it (which is clearly the case, there's no lack of Cypher...

I was much happier hacking the XP rules, so the players got XP because I Did GM Things. The only times I used anything like Intrusion...

I am just joining a Cypher system game so I am new to the system but it sounds like any time the opponent hits really hard you want to...

I'm very blunt that I prefer mostly systems with a pretty fair bit of detail and crunch in my games I spent most of my history in games...

I enjoy playing tabletop tactical games. BattleTech, Renegade Legion, Car Wars, etc. I enjoy making units in those games, with...

Just wanted to note that I thought @James Gasik had an excellent post above there. Including the end part which added up to the player...

I've seen the opposite problem as well- the player that refuses to optimize. They have their character and backstory perfectly in mind...

Sadly, some players have scar tissue from dealing with GMs that if you wanted to get anywhere you pretty much had to take this tact, and...

The problem is that I've seen this with people who I flat out refuse to believe have things nailed down in their world to the degree the...