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I think if you are worried about tactical combat in a game of VtM you have completely missed the point of what the game is about and why...

My group recently tried running a campaign using Vampire: The Masquerade 20th. We really enjoy the setting and lore and would like to...

Meh. I can take it or leave it, at least on the player side. It can be handy to reinforce the idea that players are allowed authorship...

It's one of the reasons I'm feeling so enamored of Dragonbane right now. Very flat power curves.

I've had players who would absolutely eat a failure if it was needed for them to get advancement. They wouldn't necessarily like it...

So, Burning Wheel is not particularly narrow in terms of premise. As long as characters have beliefs they are willing to fight for...

There's also the "negative reinforcement", which I think has at least two aspects to it: (1) For the player, if you don't earn artha -...

From upthread:

It depends greatly on the goals the players come up with. If a PCs goal is to explore the world, then exploring the world is not only...

I dislike the bespoke "PC things" in most cases because it creates a rules exception based environment and much of the rules...

Just something I saw over at DeviantArt - not my work

Player driven sandbox. BW enforces said playstyle by having the primary focus of play being PC Goal Completion, as opposed to the more...

Key tropes of BW play: GM builds adventures based upon on-the-character-sheet goals set by players All actions need to specify goal...

D&D has no intended playstyle and everyone plays it! It can do Doctor Who, Critical Role, Dungeon Crawl Classics, Lord of the Rings...

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