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Yeah. I try to go with italics. Feels less intrusive but still gets the word that I want to stress across. At least to me. 😉

I've heard stories about this, and seen some limited forms of it. When done collectively, its sometimes the sign of people who, well...

I kind of am saying that, which is why I wanted to use the term "purposeful" for the other case. If you don't like the distinction I'm...

I don't think I'd characterize that as being an accurate description of OD&D. I don't think I'd even say it "fundamentally worked"...

"Working out things as they went" and not taking time to integrate them is sloppy as far as I'm concerned, and it showed across the...

I don't think it was clearly intended to be secondary to dungeon-crawling at least, but I agree it wasn't well designed. Which was my...

It isn't automatically. It can be in support of genre, instead for example. But as I said, I think using "intent" for any deliberate...

I think this misunderstands some if not most of the purposes of general use games. It may well be that there's a theoretical design...

A fair of PbtA games are not the result of what I would call intentional design. You can often see it when the basic moves are basically...

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.