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I look it as the simplest model is simply playing yourself, with the character as a game piece, and you play to beat the combat/module...

My definition would be this. If the final resolution of a character's mental state and decision-making is always made by the player...

There's been a lot of that in this thread - making up terrible (hypothetical) systems, then showing with great fanfare that they're...

This is because what you’re describing isn’t an example of thoughtful design. You’re just kind of taking an instance of D&D play and...

There’s a lot of games out there, with wildly divergent play styles. My preference is to try as many as possible. And I think you get...

My ideal timeframe and frequency is twice a month for 1.5-2 years. I find that’s an adequate time to pursue a campaign to completion...

Heh. In all honestly, I don’t think I could run the same campaign for a decade even. I understand the appeal of the “I’ve been running...

In my experience, both as GM and as player, it does. My actual point is that I think GM burnout--a reason given by other posters for...

Not even for one moment. Do GMs actually run games they don't want to run? Does that actually happen? I don't know about others, but you...

Seems to me "life gets in the way" is a good summation of a lot of campaigns that end before they resolve--kids, jobs, other more-adult...

Every Game Group I Have Run Numenera: "This setting is awesome, but why do characters and character options feel so conceptually limiting?"

okay you both missed the actual point of my message, it's not about 'your character wouldn't do that', it's that Maxperson's argument...

So, basically frame tests of character as true judgment calls, exactly like what I said. A choice has to be made two or more options of...

The problem I have with this is that it puts a game like Pendragon, widely regarded as Greg Stafford's magnum opus, in the category of...

call it influenced directly then, you are not influenced directly by anything if you spend a year trying out various approaches and...