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I played my first game of Daggerheart today! I was impressed. I think it plays better than it reads, which is saying something because I...

That's really not the case. Take the typical locked door. It's pretty rare that failing to pick the lock would, in and of itself, cause...

It's so heartwarming to see Goodman Games stand by their deeply held progressive values of having their cake and eating it to. And in...

As a side validation to this, my Stonetop game had 3 different sets of "stuff" going on in 3 different geographic regions of the area...

Eh, I agree with @pemerton here, 2, socially conformant game-facilitating play is extremely prevalent. Many of the old classic pitfalls...

I'm not shifting anything. The authority that we're talking about... my preference for keeping the game moving and focused... is...

If I do a "you're all strangers" it would be some dangerous situation they get thrown into. A shipwreck, invading army, they've been...

I explicitly frame my campaign starts such that the characters generally already know each other and have been working together for a...

But it would give you the opportunity to yell out "Guys, this is all Greek to me!", which is generally not a chance afforded to someone...

Most games that include the idea of "combat" but have no set initiative, also don't lock you into combat; you instead are in a scene...

No, I think it's a good point. Most social situations or exploration scenes aren't run in an initiative sequence. Personally when I GM...

I agree that the experience is the more important bit. For me, and I suspect to some degree for you, to get the experience I want I have...

Agreed. Often, I find high detail does make it easier to believe the thing is grounded. But sometimes, high detail becomes distracting...

Yes. I've spoken a great deal in this and other threads about procedures of play. Generally I have been trying to steer the discussion...

You'd think someone would have told Michael Bay that by now