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I would also add that Fabula Ultima is one of the rare TTRPGs that my partner has loved playing and expressed enthusiastic interest in...

Brief foreshadowing mostly to show how the villain is Doing Stuff, far less than the usual read-aloud text you see in a D&D campaign.

It absolutely is a function of them not learning, but I think having so many moving parts is part of what leads them to not learning...

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The core game is in 3 books totalling over 1000 pages. There are certainly much crunchier games, and 5E opted for very elegant...

What, as the conversation seems to be getting to, needs discussing first is where we think the baselines are. I mean I can accept...

Ok but what about full paragraph length read-aloud text? :P Hitting 2-3 senses to evoke the spirit of the place and drop a couple hooks...

Yeah. I had to read the minion rules multiple times to fully absorb them - but basically they’re a pool of HP, and so if the total...

There was definitely a bit of "new game with a lot of tags/keywords/rules" to work through tonight, but we had a lot of fun wading in to...

The way I see it, we’re not looking at a pendulum swing so much as a branching. The industry didn’t collectively move toward...

This is a false dichotomy. Nothing in "crunch" impacts what TTRPGs do that CRPGs can't. I think the "why don't you just play a CRPG"...

I think that maybe we’re seeing a lot of recent games picking a narrower area of focus and designing as much rules overhead around that...

I have never been convinced by the argument that rules complexities impacts "roleplaying" at all.

I haven’t played DS yet but I have read through the Heroes book twice solidly to get my head around the new concepts and how they all...

That rat encounter looks inspired for something so early in a game experience.