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Right. To be clear, I'm not endorsing it as good end product. I'm just saying that sometimes suboptimal end product is not the result...

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it. But it is impossible to get a...

I believe the term for that sort of thing is "compromised design", and its usually not complimentary for a reason.

Went back to this given your addition of your third paragraph. I think the problem here is "intent" is serving a bit too many masters...

Fair enough. FYI, I added some further context to my post while you were making this comment. No idea if it makes any difference.

I turned 60 today. Fair to say that this is not anything like anything I imagined at 15 or 30. Or 45, for that matter.

As it is, then. If my prior posts didn't make that clear, my elaborating further is unlikely to.

If you'll note, I'm mostly applying it to games that are not only apparently misaimed (which I do think can be a problem, but a lesser...

That may be a result of PBtA engine being a victim of " New Hotness Syndrome" (despite not actually being all that new by now). It is...

Honestly, at most PbtA games I scream "what the hell are you doing?!" and I'm famously a big fan of the Apocalypse World. It's very...

An interesting contrast is, I think, Monsterhearts. I'm willing to say that PbtA was a good general choice for Monsterhearts, and you'd...

Look at my further posts and see if you still read me as saying that.

It would depend on the specific game, but part of the intent is obviously to allow a variety of settings and/or styles to be played. At...

I'm not defending the semantic loading on this if you see my follow-up post.

Other than intentional design how would one describe designing from a vision and only including mechanics that contribute to the...