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And I tried to make a distinction between two versions of that, and apparently that's not working. So, I again repeat I'm uninterested...

Not at all what I said, but if you care to read it that way don't let me stop you.

I'm thinking perhaps you left a word out of this, since as written it doesn't make much sense.

And as with Soviet above, I'm suspecting that's because you care about some distinctions that for many people are just not that...

Which from my point of view I tried to do and you seem to dislike it. There's only so much effort I'm willing to put in here.

My experience is it can go both ways (though, honestly, I question whether they'd frame it in their heads in either case the way you did...

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...