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You play to find out the answer to things. No idea where you're coming from here. Pretty much every game that builds "play to find...

Not true at all. You can't play to find out something if the GM doesn't have some idea of what's at stake! If you say "An army is...

Dynamic antagonists and things happening offstage don't violate "play to find out" (unless they are invulnerable to PC input, I...

There's no one class or mechanic that covers all of these things. As zakael19 mentioned, a lot of these are built into the various...

I think the adventure anthologies are usually better received than the big honking adventure paths (other than Curse of Strahd).

The text actually uses both obstacles (in its common usage) and Obstacles. For instance: "The GM starts the game with his turn. He gets...

Yeah exactly. There are so many games which have complexity in completely the wrong places. Often it's not even subjectively wrong as in...

Yeah, the blog is pretty full of the idea that this is "what if we made the kinda OSR-esque / dungeon looting game we want to with our...

From the post, it seems like they have done that "shoving". Its full of NSR/OSR references. (From you next post) its seems to totally...

For me, complexity isn't inherently a problem or good thing, it's whether that complexity is justified by creating interesting and...

That goat is going to climb the walls out of danger while your character gets eaten by a grue, with all the treasure.

They're clearly all natural caves or monster-made!

Yeah, but you can also use them in a VTT by grabbing the images. Yes, tactility is awesome (and I think some ofmy online players are...