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Just to check, do both incorporate illusionism and GM-force? Do the two labels have exactly the same meaning? (effectively emptying one...

In general I agree with you, but when an environment has broke down into side-taking (as this thread long ago did), I think not making...

Probably. Its got a very different semantic impact when used in the context of a group where everyone understands it as not an insult...

For a number of years prior to COVID I either GMed for, or played in games by him pretty regularly. I miss him a lot, as I'd known him...

Though it kind of depends. On one hand, I think blowing off the semantic loading on "railroad" is either blind to how such things...

Just a side comment, but to me most dice pool systems feel far less swingy than D20 or D100 systems; I see massive swings in my 13th Age...

Paying a fair price for something isn't 'charity'.

I've been told that posting about things that might matter to other gamers can be worthwhile. And I was curious.

Crabs trying to climb over one another to get out of the bucket, man.

It's tragic that the world seems hellbent on becoming a cyberpunk dystopia, but what's even more wild is how so many people are falling...

The truck was in reaction to the guys actions in the bar, and at that point, he hadn't even taken up the mantle and was conflicted. And...

No shade on them. I frequently have to ask questions like, "Roll whatever the equivalent of Streetwise is in this game."

That's likely the disease of near-system conflation. People who've played a lot of closely related games, or played through multiple...

This suggests to me that you kind of really lean into a more D20-adjacent desire in fantasy at least (though I acknowledge the BESM...

Except for the ones who do because the players have no one else to GM for them, who don't realize that no D&D is better than bad D&D, or...