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Yea, I would agree with this. The source of the setting notes isn't nearly as important as the fact that those notes can be asserted in...

Honestly, all of them, but the three setting books are definitely most interesting, and HotB is distinctly behind everything else.

These are both close, but there's an essential element missing that I think is the source of so much of the swirl in these discussions...

What you talked about is useful information. However, when it comes to things like "character-centric story-telling," what the poster...

When a definition of something starts getting overly broad, I generally find it useful to try and define by exclusion. What sort of...

I won't speak for others, but there's a reason I normally get right in there when I see hyperbole showing up; I've rarely seen it...

(Not a response to any specific poster) 'The decisions I make take into account all relevant factors within the setting, and they are...

Discussions of railroading always seem to get lost in the weeds. Before we can make any reasonable discussion of railroading, we have...

This seems such an expansive definition of railroading as to not be useful.

I did consider that; I switched term from player to character deliberately. As a player, I feel my choices are more meaningful in a...

The GM saying something is impossible for some reason related to the setting, isn't a railroad. And even the players going on an...

And you may be right, but I'm just hesitant to let overgeneralizations pass.

I usually respect a lot of your posts, but here Faolyn clearly stated that Hussar said that Ironsworn was better for sandbox games, you...

I can quote him on that, too. Shall I continue? OK, then defend this: Coz it seems to me that if you define "sandbox game" as "a...

I don't think so - I think it just derailed those two campaigns enough that people kind of lost interest. You can try and couch it in...