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Here me out, you're both wrong, and the rules should provide the player a meaningful set of decisions to make in pursuit of their goal...

Not exactly what you’re describing, but my best campaign ever was essentially a sandbox. But I didn’t design it from the ground up. It...

I use rules as written pretty much universally. But where there is ambiguity, even a little, then I’m comfortable ruling in a way that...

I can't quite get past how suggestive the thread title is. That's some strong posting. I'll give it a slow clap.

I’m not sure what that means? I try a rule before I change it. That’s all I was saying.

I try to play something as written before trying to change it. People very much overestimate their ability to tell how rules play at the...

Who gets to say what and when… that’s a rule. So if the conversation that is the game is happening, then rules are being used.

I think story, as it's used in this article, means a broad outline of the expected fictional content of gameplay, so the "story" of D&D...

I think this is just a terminology issue I'm not understanding, not a problem with the article, but for the life of me I can't...

I kind of think it "depends", there is no formula for a good game, otherwise companies like EA and Ubisoft wouldn't be in so much...

I thought the same thing, especially when the situation the GM is describing, the setting backstory, and the actions the players decide...

I agree with this. I enjoy GMing, or playing, a RPG session - generally I enjoy it a lot! And a significant part of my enjoyment is...

I was struck by this post. There can't be a RPG without "fiction": shared imagination is core to RPGing. Funny hats, voices and other...

Popular non retroclone OSR systems would be The Black Hack, Mork Borg, Into the Odd, Knave, Cairn, Shadowdark, 5 Torches Deep...

Hot Take: the marketing makes a game OSR. The slightly spicier hot take: OSR games tend to be structured around an imagined (mostly...