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Blocking doesn't need to be just reserved as a moderation tool.. It's also good for curation. Not here, but on other sites like X I find...

Despite its importance generally, I feel like we should perhaps set issues of immersion aside here. The scope of that conversation is...

Since I've seen people when the TORG example come up assure everyone that the connected parts either had to be connected or had no...

I agree with you in principal, but its complicated because "making decisions only the character would make" and "forget I'm playing a...

You responded to my post, I responded to yours. That's how that works.

As I said, it doesn't require much to discuss some of it in terms of how much attention it requires though. Spending a metacurrency is...

Yes, Micah, but you're not everyone. My point was the woman I was referring to didn't care whether it was metamechanical per se or not...

One also has to account for why a given player is averse to such things, too. Back in our TORG days, one of my players had no real...

I'm not entirely sure; lot of systems have some fairly subjective bits in things like experience awards and at least some sorts of...

Well, not that I entirely disagree but lots of system have definite 'cans' and 'shoulds' in them, like lists of ways that a GM might...

Principles (at least in Apocalypse World) not advice or suggestions. They are instructions. The game says, "Always say what your...

Because they are different parts of what makes an RPG, and represent two very different design approaches to the same ends. So while...

I did clarify a little: I was just hoping for a more proactive rather than reactive party. For the most part, I have had to put stuff...

That's why I said "somewhat uncommon". As I've noted, I've seen it in superhero games for almost as long as there have been superhero...

So, mechanics. When I use the word I mean rules and systems, but some people (and I don't just mean here), extend the definition to...