Recent content by Torranocca

I have preferences that align with option #3. However, I would also proffer the idea that “ right balance” is by its very a nature, subjective and I would hope that no one goes off on a diatribe about” you don’t get to define “ right” for me! 😶🤪 With that out of the way, what follows is what...

Indubitably😁👍

@Torranocca and @Ovinomancer, stop talking to each other, please.

Your one upsmanship has gotten tiresome. I will post as I see fit and do not need your tacit approval or agreement to post what I know to be fact by personal experience. Your inability to except that there is a real possibility that you and your magical leprechaun🤪 (derp) friends did not invent...

I mean this in the nicest way you can possibly interpret it. Move along. This discussion is a moot point. My experiences don’t change and your claim have no validity to me. Nor is it important to me in any case. I in no way invalidate your claims to you or others. Those are your experiences...

Oh boy( face palm) this has slipped into the twilight zone. I claim no privileges or credit for anything. I did not invent the concepts or the labels for them, they were in common usage with the players I knew, myself and the circles I traveled in…. In the 1980s.Wave your banners and plant your...

If you are looking for an argument, please move along. As I said, I have no dog in the fight. I simply don’t give weight to the claims as I know them to fail to mesh with reality. One can certainly claim their own understanding of events they were part of, that I can certainly grant to you. But...

I need no evidence, this is neither an argument nor a legal proceeding. I am simply conferring first person experience. Was there, used those labels, had a common understanding what they meant, witnessed said terms used by many others. I am not sure why any of this is an issue unless someone is...

The sentences are easily rectifiable when you notice, at no time did I say it was problematic. This is what free play means. Was I happy about the player losing his character to terrible choices? Of course not. The players “job” is to make their own decisions and figure out how to navigate the...

This, as you have written, is in on point with much of what I was discussing. Started out with map and die cut games an tabletop miniature war gaming, in the 1970s also.👍

So again we have more understanding. Now if we consider the opening question of” Sandbox” and “Railroad” “what else is there?” Maybe where my appoach diverges from these will become more apparent. Why I believe that “Sandbox” vs “Railroad” is a false dichotomy and neither is actually how...