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All equal if the mechanics are allowed to be the benchmark by which the world and NPCs react to things the PCs do.

That's the way I see it, as functionally there is no difference between a "linear" game and a railroad; in that the GM decides what all...

Scaling DC is dumb. As others have pointed out, it completely defeats the point in gaining levels. Also, levels are dumb, but that's a...

Not even in the slightest. When I played BG3 I wanted to go to to Waterdeep to see if I could find a cure for the tadpole, but the GM...

Possibly, but a game that features prepared plotlines and such guarantees that outcome, as actions PCs take will not alter the sequence...

3 or 4.

For me it's pretty simple. If there are predetermined scenes, plotlines, story beats, encounters, or solutions to problems, that the PCs...

Me! I run Pendragon 100% Rules As Written. Same with Delta Green (Arc Dream), Burning Wheel (and MouseGuard), Cepheus, Mothership...

That's the thing, it wasn't them discussing how the rules worked, as they were all familiar with 2d20 games. It was them discussing the...

For me it's pretty much all bad, sorry. I'm definitely not a fan of metacurrency being central to gameplay. I don't understand the need...

How dare you! Just wait until I...hold on....my wife just told me everything you wrote was true. Okay. Carry on. But I've got my eye...

For me it's the meta currency thing, mostly because I don't like how the meta currency is required for the system to function properly...

It’s a shame, so many Bothans died to bring us this thread.

Yes, yes they are. Hence my comment. Anyway, how about that Han Solo guy shooting first? What's with that?

Maybe we can just talk about Star Wars? That would be keen.