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I flip the table and toss my knife into the floor between us. The rest works itself out.

I utter and completely gave up on humanity when Flerfs became not only a thing, but a thing so prevalent that respectable scientists...

Wait...he (she?) GMs? I wonder what system? Where do I sign up? I bet that would be a fun table.

A situation isn't a path. In Burning Wheel, a player can also establish key elements and/or trajectory of a scene, via Circles and Wises.

Burning Empires: the session zero process is extensive and puts player plots up front for the GM to fill in. The GM can front if needed...

This is absolutely true. Yep, that's one possible example: let the players provide the basic elements that the GM then uses to construct...

I did not indicate that the heist genre was in any way "all media" in it's entirety. I was simply pointing out that the heist genre is...

I find the assertion that most characters in media are reactive. I have watched and read numerous stories about protagonists that are...

The comparison of the play of games like CoC, Pendragon, Burning Wheel etc to boardgames is quite bizarre. Look at how people actually...

Maybe it's because I've had a "fiction first" approach to TTRPG play long before that ever became a term people used, but the idea of...

I cast 'Restore Je Ne Sais Quoi' on Conan. That stab to the face really bummed him out.

That's why my PC carries around a meat-meter, to measure my depth of meat remaining. My plan is to have my PC's artificer friend...

Burning Wheel is pretty clear on what a GM can do to dice pools by spending Fate or Persona for a NPC. Marvel Heroic RP is pretty clear...

When a D&D player looks at their PC's hp, sees that they are getting low, and so has their PC drink a potion of healing, that's pretty...

How does one determine what the limit is in regards to how much the GM is allowed to author? What is a good TTRPG that lays out in no...