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It does so explicitly because with the exception of things like “rivals” that use trimmed down powers and are presented in the fiction...

Considering that literally every "modern" game I've seen come out this year has been explicit about the separation between PC and NPC...

Fulfilling my desires? I am only telling you about my approach in this thread and expressing my own disinterest in whether people like...

Maybe another thread for rehashing How to Play Blades in the Dark?

Gotcha, that would explain the sad. Neo-narrative? Lmao

I think that Ema comes from the perspective that Neo-Trad is still "traditional." For example, Cypher System and a lot of Free Leagues...

heh, fair. I guess we don’t really have a good “bin” for whatever it is that FU/DH/DW2 are trying to do. A bridge between more classic...

You're supposed to embrace the chaos and collapse. Seriously, that's the point of the game. I think we tried to hammer home how the...

Sure, I was just pointing out specific examples of intentional design attempts to do exactly what the OP was positing that exist.

The thought comes to me that you could grab all the non-mechanical aspects of this and directly use it with Daggerheart mechanical...

INTRODUCTION, PART 1 We get a brief introduction telling us what this game is about and what are JRPGs (with examples). If you know...

I don't see that in the same vein as the ones I linked though, it's still mostly 5e generic but + stuff right? The 4 I linked are doing...

Here I disagree. I think that as with many things in Daggerheart there are multiple reasons they aren't always on. From a simple...

I would put reaction tables, in particular, as a design element intended to facilitate "play to find out what happens" and "emergent...

Yeah. In fact, I think that Ema has the opposite approach of a JRPG programmer. A lot of their play principles are coming from the...