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Sure, but by and large this sort of play is being done as a short lark, in games designed for it as the premise (see: Blades), or by...

I think the Six Culture model is better than GNS.

Not true. Cooperative games exist. TTRPGs are largely held to be an excellent example of those. In fact, pretty much every TTRPG rule...

The problem is “OSR” and “traditional” are way too similar to each other to be 2 of the 3 categories; it’s roughly equivalent to...

I think the most interesting game for me here is Errant, which draws a fun distinction between Rules and Procedures: "Errant is rules...

I don’t see it used much any more beyond people being dismissive, and I think as this thread has demonstrated in incredible detail that...

You’re picking a concept of game-running apart by relying on an absurdist and constructed example. We’ve said many times that people...

Since we're talking about fail forward, that's not an option. We've explained this: it's not interesting or fun. It does nothing but...

“Storygames” is terrible and doesn’t say anything and is implicitly dismissive in the way “hardcore gamers” derided video games like...

Look, if you have to start your post out with “I mean nothing insulting with what I’m about to say” you probably could’ve done something...

Now, if you really want to own everything, do whatever you like, and not deal with limitations of a license then you should make your...

Some expanded thoughts on stuff: First: One thing that's kinda interesting to me is that from my little perspective over here a lot of...

More thoughts later, but DH expects that the characters are “protagonist-heroes in a story.”

A bit more from Tuovinen that seems relevant to this thread: the term “princess play” is not intended to be disparaging. I do not think...

I really like the 4e world axis cosmology. There is just a couple of pages in the 4e PH and DMG to explain the whole thing and it is...