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Deeply unclear what "traditional" means there, and I'm worried it's probably 5e. It's very clear my high player agency rules heavy stuff...

I think the Six Culture model is better than GNS.

TSR did them, too. One around 1991; I recall the average on the early 90's one was just over 2 years, but the median and mode were both...

The problem is “OSR” and “traditional” are way too similar to each other to be 2 of the 3 categories; it’s roughly equivalent to...

I think the most interesting game for me here is Errant, which draws a fun distinction between Rules and Procedures: "Errant is rules...

I don’t see it used much any more beyond people being dismissive, and I think as this thread has demonstrated in incredible detail that...

And Tuovinen also discusses the utility of “rules-heavy” and “rules-light” to various flavors of Sun within the blog post.

“Storygames” is terrible and doesn’t say anything and is implicitly dismissive in the way “hardcore gamers” derided video games like...

That blog post is from 2020.

Well, yea! 5e IS wildly incoherent, that's why people fight about it all the time on this and many other sites. And I say that as...

Like most taxonomies, GNS is terrible right up until you try and create a replacement. :) And I'm probably callused, but I didn't read...

You should probably play a game where a non-result is a valid result of a skill check. :)

Ah, ok. Now I hope I read you correctly, as I think I read this as something I can whole-heartedly agree with. The entire creative...

Contrast and compare 5e with the blog’s description of Call of Cthulhu.

The blogger agrees. He talks about them separately, but points out this relationship. As I said, summaries are going to oversimplify :)