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Well, as I posted upthread, Map-and-key is a way of having mechanics - in particular, the mechanics for determining where the PCs go on...

I've already formed and given my answer: It's a game that wants the mechanics to actively drive play. If you've introduced (and rely...

Here's an open question to anyone. Say I get sick of Apocalypse World's nonsense. I decide that the failure mechanics don't allow me...

Speaking generally, the longer this thread goes on, the more I feel that the most distinctive defining feature of modern RPG design...

I feel like this is a little reductive or suggests that the Forge was more of a monolith than it was. For BW, by the time of BW...

Yes, but hawkeyefan was specifically talking about improvements in presentation, organization, etc., as things that are generally better...

This is what I see as a huge difference between the Forge games of the 2000s and the post-Forge games of the 2010s (I count both Fate...

To me, it seems that a RPG can have an opinion, or an intent, even though it doesn't set out to have one. I say this not to disagree...

While generally true, there's a tendency for people grabbing an extent base system to decide it can just do what they want it to without...

I don't want to put words into your mouth, but the general problem sounds like a perennial one: a lot of stuff is not well-designed.

Yeah. As I noted earlier, Monsterhearts is a good example: I'm not quite sure what someone trying for something like that would have...

I think what's happened is that new ways of using mechanics have been found and refined, thus essentially creating new playstyles that...

I think this is perfectly true and valid. I don't think this thread should be about what is "better overall" or "better for everyone"...

I think the fashion metaphor works fairly well here. If you are designing a game today, you have a whole bunch of history you can learn...

IMHO, the Daggerheart core "engine" has a lot of potential as a basis for other games (see PbtA, FitD, etc.), but I'm not necessarily...