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That's the gig at the end of the day; a popular IP is only going to get you so far; a game system that doesn't work for people isn't...

Better to encourage the ones where it'll work to be better and train new ones not to have the bad habits than to tolerate bad behavior...

That's almost inevitable given that, on the whole there are more players than GMs. The problem is that generally the GM has more reach...

See, I actually agree with the stance that games can be a tool of moral education and investigation. I just still don't see how the...

I dunno. I think its a gamist mechanism, but its associated with fictional tropes (specifically the ones you see in action fiction...

CoH suffered from the fact the people producing it, amazing a job as they did in some ways, were still utterly stuck in the traditional...

Anyone who thinks Hero is a physics engine has a very bizarre idea of physics. A simple examination of the damage to lift ratio of...

100% this. In sufficient numbers (which is how minions were encouraged to be used) they were the bigger threat. 13A has a minion...

It isn't just DC. Years ago I was part of the application staff for an X-Men based MUSH, and we'd get people who would write up FCs...

Even Hero isn't trying for a physics emulation in any meaningful way; if it was the way Strength and damage steps operate wouldn't work...

There's an argument here, but I do think there are problems for a lot of people the more well developed a given setting is (and its even...

The problem with the question here is this is one where even more than usual, the answer kind of depends on what the end users are going...

Reading the last few pages, I'm suspecting there's a thread or two I'm perhaps just as glad I've missed.

This too does not narrow it down much.

D&D worlds are inherently inconsistent. Every part of D&D is and has always been inconsistent with some other part of it. That there's...