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I was watching a GDC talk by one of the designers of Magic, and he was tossing out a number of lessons he’d learned over his 20 years...

Pretty much this, yes. If setting lore doesn't impact play, a person playing is not likely to give that lore priority in their mind.

That’s where my mind went too.

I get what you're saying here, but my mind immediately wandered back to the original Conan stories, where the hero's mighty thews and...

Isn't everything you just said after "Immersion is not something that can be discussed in a session zero" something that can be...

I just want to elaborate on this a little bit. The only time characters in fiction do things that "don't make sense" is (i) if the...

But shorn of all the real world inputs that affect such a perspective. Hunger, tiredness, social pressure, courage, desires, fears, etc...

Let’s go for some serious breadth. Microscope for collaborative world-building Alice is Missing for unique text-based roleplaying Fall...

Pendragon, Traveler, Dogs in the Vinyard, and Dread Arguments could be made for Twilight: 2000, Fiasco, Toon, and My Life with Master

I'm not familiar with Freebooters, so I can't reasonably say I'd pick one over the other. I do like Errant enough that I've mostly...

Would you veer towards Freebooters or Errant for a procedure focused (what are Moves if not fiction triggered procedures…) OSR game?

Just wanted to share a moment from my session tonight where players got really excited about some Dragonlance lore, and how I got there...

Conversely, I've had exactly the same experience as Hussar, despite being significantly younger and living in a different country. GMs...

The 5.24 books talk about this a bit, mainly on the social contract side. Daggerheart takes a page from the narrative side of the house...

That is a good point. And EN World definitely has an older lean, as well as people that have been playing for a long time. It is...