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When you offer a carrot, it isn't always. I can try to do something and do my best, but that's no assurance it works. If my RuneQuest...

Eh. I've got things in my head that seem like they could make interesting games for a variety of people; not all of those people are me.

To a point. I still think it tells you something about the result in terms of process, it just doesn't tell you if it worked. I mean...

Its a carrot, not a stick.

And in the end got to find out it really was enemy action.

Dunno how many (if any) will find this a helpful distraction, but this is the new member of our household. His name is Blotch. Here...

..I was just going to reply to Mad Jack with a remark about handedness and how for some reason I'm lefty just for throwing frisbees...

Thank you. I was just thinking about ... you know, the noise. And felt a need to articulate how it was just everywhere, about which I...

You ever feel that there is this constant hum of loud background noise. It's there, and it's getting louder. And every night, you go to...

In the case of Pendragon, I suspect Stafford would view it that people who didn't want to engage with what he was doing fundamentally...

Notice the phrase "too strident" in what I posted. I can understand people who consider things like armor class or hit points the price...

Yeah, there are a lot of solutions to the "We're fighting things that would puree us" problem that don't involve inflating damage...

Its actually very similar to a method I usually recommend in its carrot-and-stick nature. Usually I'm talking about it in terms of...

Moving on from there being a conventional wisdom of what roleplaying games are and can be is an improvement from my perspective. Not...

The usual problem with that is whether the declared action is just autoresolved; otherwise all you do is move the problem back a bit...