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The Meatgrinder is a brilliant bit of design.

I agree with you, but I think we need to be careful to keep player habits separate from best practices for a given style. I've played in...

His Majesty the Worm uses a “Meatgrinder” table where you remove entries from the table as they are encountered. There may be others...

For me, the brilliance of Mythic Bastionland is how the Myths and Omens work. It solves the issue of random encounters being...well...

Ohhh yeah, totally. Hopefully that’s pretty clear from the page, but this is another place where the author’s focus on trimming down...

If the players can't see past the need to obtain and act on information, then when the time comes to resolve a myth, there's the risk of...

Correlation does not imply causation The way a high level spellcaster is set up and designed is not the way anybody really wants to...

No idea what any of that means! Also, the game says “the group feels a Myth is resolved” and the group in this context also includes...

If most classes (most classes are spellcasters) are for many players too complicated then yes this is an issue. If many people "need to...

I think part of the "problem" here is the trouble people have keeping track of their spells. That's not a "the spells are bad" problem...

I think this is so interesting. The question for the knights becomes “in the context of your Vow that you live by, do you think this...

The Nightmares Underneath calls it Disposition, explicitly relates it to both your energy and morale (you re-roll it at the start of...

i would say having rarely people play high levels has to do also with people struggling. I see regularily even in low levels people...

Yeah, I like DS!’s explicit casting of the statistic as “Stamina” and that every time you’re struck out at, by claw, sword, or magic...

Whereas the games that have decided you always/"always" hit are aiming at the folks who find that when they miss it's a feel-bad. That...