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I was straight-up just told that no, they aren't. That that doesn't come into play. That's why I was making the point in the first...

I think it's because DH is a more loose game in terms of rules. Yes, it has crunch in the combat rules, but a lot of play is driven by...

There are not much difference in rules between Urban Shadows and Masks — except for how stats go up and down dynamically in the last —...

Daggerheart has a 'lighter footprint' so is easy to reskin to different genres. D&D by the very existence of a skill system and spell...

If D&D shipped with custom/optional mechanics to fit a variety of different stories you might want to tell with the system instead of a...

You’ve mistaken me for @pemerton . I’m simply offering a slightly different take to perhaps bridge the gap. I don’t think “encounters”...

Is it? Do you think this situation was written down ahead of time? With boxed text and a statblock? Or do some games work differently...

This is all hilarious, as Matt is the writer for the Age of Umbra campaign frame. So, yes he made it all up. And then put in a book...

Or said in an even more oppressive and genre appropriate way “have your ability to hope eroded away until you can no longer go on.”

Not by paying hope, but by reducing your maximum capacity for hope.

The fiction might be why we play the game. I can imagine other reasons, too: fun, expressing system mastery, socialization, and so on...

Honestly the CR phenomenon has been huge at getting people to try 5e. The game I ran for 1st timers in late 23-mid ‘24 were all big CR...

I believe Apocalypse World’s printing was funded via KS, back in the early 2010s? I know online sales is how the Bakers have gone from...

I would push back on the idea that there was a single thing. Due to the whole, what's the reward for play and what techniques are...

Strongly empowered to do what? When I GM Burning Wheel, for instance, I feel "strongly empowered" to present my friend with...