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A skilled thief encountering less wanderers feels entirely verisimilitudinous to me.

This may have already been answered - but the way I’ve generally seen it in OSR play is that you pre-roll a set of random table results...

Regardless of play techniques the GM is determining it. The question is based on what principles, priorities and constraints.

I love tables like the ones in Stonetop that are the start of something appropriate for the region or site in question, but are meant to...

To me this says your knowledge of modern systems stops in about 2010. Because there was a vast leap forward in using mechanics to...

How exceptional the characters are compared to the general population will vary from game to game, but I generally characters to be...

You can see more of my thoughts in the post just above. "Fail forward" is primarily the idea that nothing happens is not a permissible...

You got a reply to this from @Old Fezziwig. I've also posted about this in many posts in this thread, including some in reply to you...

Did you look at the Motherboard Ikonis special rules for bonded weapons? They're pretty powerful, and you could maybe customize that...

My goal is not to bash on anything. It's to look at what D&D does, and what it has done traditionally, and to see where/how it may...

So, the way I tend to view the listed GM Moves in any given game is that these are the things that you explicitly have the authority to...

Absolutely! I played in a 2d20 game of Star Trek Adventures for a bit. I'm not a big Trek fan, so I wasn't crazy about the game... but...

I think it's a huge mistake to cast GM Moves as just what GMs do. I know that a lot of us kind of intuitively picked up scene framing...

Or even: talking about how D&D has changed for many people inclusive of its guidelines in the newest edition as well as games that take...

Of course it's tragic in the real world; no idea what you're trying to do by pointing out something so obvious, but sure, yeah, ok. In...