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Any game, wherever it's discussed, ought to be discussed within the context of its own design. Taking out pieces of a game design and...

I wanted to take a moment to show why it's important to look things through the prism of a game's intended GM and player roles when...

dear lord, i missed one day of visiting this thread and i ended up catching up on it for days.

So there are a few ways to look at this. First, have all those factors actually been set already? The weather and the location of...

So I can better understand why I don't like it so I can avoid doing similar things in my own games? It might be there's some itch in my...

A desire to understand the greater world around us? Knowledge for its own sake? I mean, I know all 50 US state capitals despite the...

It allows me to understand what other people see in things, even if they aren't to my taste.

Its like my attempt when reviewing things to ask "Does this item seem to do what it sets out to do well?" rather than "Do I like what...

I work under the assumption that the amount of people who read threads is larger than the amount of posters. I’m more interested in...

This has nothing particular to do with the game or its rules but with fiction. Essentially Harper's arguing for an equivalent of...

Or alternatively, "Using this technique actively works against things I and people like me want out of our gaming experience" without...

I look at it this way. Saying "this technique works if you use Assumption A. This same technique fails if you Assumption B." is...

I wouldn't worry about it. Different expectations of play mean that this circle is extremely unlikely to be squared. This part of play...

To be honest, I'm just taking other people's word for it that Australia is real. :)

When talking about fiction-first games the fiction refers to the shared/established fictional situation the table has agreed upon. It...