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I think monster-hunting and urban fantasy are not quite the same thing, so I don't think I'd put MotW in there. And Monsterhearts...

There's essentially three ways to go about it: 1. Have a large enough list of technology, items, species and creatures to supply any...

Yeah, with the current state of the games industry, avoiding big-name studios and instead working with the new indie studios made up of...

In my experience it depends on what you're using as a systemic basis in the first place. But of course my real answer is "Don't try to...

I'll outright say that there are mechanical elements of D&D that I think a large number of other games just handle better. I just don't...

But as you said yourself, the psych trait may well just be modifying a roll you have to make in the situation anyway (I know its that...

Yes. Standards for players have always been front and center for Narrativist play. Stylistically it only works with players and GMs are...

Its astonishing how easy it is to make thermite once you understand what it is and have access to a junkyard. Its a good thing it has a...

Okay, let me see if I can find any suggestions here. This one's tricky, because most of the cases I know of are full-out generic game...

There's an in-joke there you're probably not exposed to the right ancient-gamer material to get.

That's my point though; you've already accepted that in that situation a roll may make your character behave in a way you think is...

But you get that's a personal taste thing, right? I can probably say without too much loss of generality there's a lot of people out...

Reminds me of the paranoid guy who booby trapped his house, mislabeled chemicals in his house, basically, just, everything he could do...

The bang is cool and all, also you don't really care about your hearing when you are a kid... but if you want more "bang" for the buck...

With no offense, @VelvetViolet, I can think of multiple examples of at least your second, fifth and sixth cases out there. A few of...