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"Worth the Candle" is my vote for LitRPG that's also really thoughtful about what the genre means and what it's trying to accomplish...

Heh, gotta be honest, I really love LITRPG-- I didn't think I would and there's a lot of it that's decidedly amateurish (in the sense...

Dungeon Crawler Carl is excellent, I read it after I caught up in The Wandering Inn (which is absolutely incredible, and also very...

TLDR: If you haven't read Dungeon Crawler Carl..... read Dungeon Crawler Carl! (and actually even better....listen to the audiobook). I...

I agree. But in such a listing you should also in this context include some questions that would show a player actually prefering...

I'll go you one further. Once I started a Traveller game. I just told the players that their characters were on a small station. They...

I'll just point out that skill challenges were maligned often, but they're a huge boon here! They allow for a mix of more and less...

Sure. And not here, where everyone understands other modes of play and has assumedly already decided their preferences, but for a...

I can see that. From my perspective, I would say that for more narrative play, setting a character goal and and trying to achieve it...

Left to my druthers, I would go a step further and say "you can't have a game" at all, but that's unnecessarily hostile in this space...

Nothing wrong with that! I also enjoy a rousing game of Robo Rally!

Oye! Exactly how many encounters would you manage in an evening? People said 4e combat was too slow!

I mean, you can't have a gamist game (which you seem to prefer) without some kind of win condition or at least a metric of success, right?

Sure. And I think the narrative critique against that style of play (or why they don't prefer it), can be overly simplified into "The...

I would agree. I mean, the entire point of a fail-forward game with focus on narrative generation is that there is no defined fail...