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Of course people can believe what they believe, but beliefs can be more or less well grounded in evidence. I don't know what these...

At that point you're doing the binary-view thing I've complained about again, since now there's only sandboxes and story-centric games...

I mean... saying you can skip past some stuff is decent advice was met with resistance. If that doesn't sum up the thread title...

I think that if even the 5e.24 DMG is telling DM's to consider this, it's about as mainstream advice as you can possibly get. To posit...

No one can make anyone do anything. I don’t think that telling GMs that the flow of time in their game is something they can control is...

Thanks for your thoughtfulness. The games I would recommend most for someone coming from your position would probably be Stonetop or...

So, in Narrativist play the fun is still coming from the people and the fiction we create together. We are just creating it differently...

13th Age has a similar "Fail Forward" philosophy: "...outside of battle, true failure tends to slow action down rather than move the...

My home games (we reverted to 3.5e because I have all the toys and like the way we play it…) are definitely player-influenced, in a...

As usual, well-said. And it doesn't even need to be H,H,H,H...; it could be HxHHxHHHxHxHxHHHHxH... or any of a million variations where...

I would say it’s more like how most movies handle it. You watch the character get into a car and pull away… then they cut to a scene of...

It depends on the context, but for some of these: Some doors can be forcibly opened that way, some can't. Many dungeon doors are made...

New Mearls RuneQuest!!! Sadly, this is all I recall from the one time I played it.

I'm replying two weeks down the road, but having actually played the game now, I wanted to address this. I've only played DG once, so I...

Ok, “has a distinct and separate mode inclusive of initiative where you’re expected to resolve the conflict/encounter fully within the...