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It's a very gamist way of playing, which is fine for many people. But it often feels like an artificial constraint imposed by the game...

Yeah, the nearby B&N had it more prominently displayed then D&D last time I was there (endcap vs general TTRPG area).

Yeah same, between the formatting & the vibes of stuff like Winter's Daughter it really opened my eyes to what was in the realm of...

Nostalgia doesn't draw me to the OSR, because I didn't like D&D back in the day. What is drawing me in is the imaginative ideas and...

My experience is that this all handled very easily with a) asking "ok, how does it help/come into play?" and b) talking about...

I've never had trouble with this either. Same with 13th Age, where skills are encompassed in statements like"Ranger of the Far North."...

Some of the WotC products that have had the most vocal pushback online have been the same products people I play with have been most...

Big deal 1 - ,make sure that you have the right font size and type selected before you make the table. Then the basic row height will be...

In terms of generic Plotweaver, they just put out an open call for Alpha Playtested tables, especially interested in ebad ING from...

And still others like to make snide comments about the things people enjoy!

I use Clocks a lot. Pretty much in any game I GM. They’re just an easy way to track things, simple to share, and unobtrusive to most...

Or a sequence of self-contained scenes that exist in isolation and can be engaged at a leisurely pace where the party is always at peak...

Outside of discrete subsystems like combat I often like to add success with complications into otherwise traditional games. In our...

OMG, the conversation remains at the center. Who would have predicted that? :LOL:

Yeah, the issue seems to be about how situations are framed/established, how consequences are established, and how action declaration...