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Well, I found it helpful. There were some nuggets of gold and nobody is outright arguing there SHOULDNT be a TLDR (jargon!) for the topic.

The entire concept of "RPG Theory" discussed here is, from what I gather, some reference to some articles (posts, books, dissertations, whatever). How is a random passerby to know you are discussing this very particular thing born of a few people and not just general "RPG design" without...

It's 5th on my end...but was a nice jargon free education. Thanks!

Board game isn't a particular game, though. You would have to compare TTRPG to boardgame. A good comparison might be Cards Against Humanity. Been out a similar time.

Dnd = 3 presses on my phone D&D = 6 presses (7 if not starting a sentence) Efficiency!

The second post used the following terms (as examples of jargon) which mean so little to me it makes the actual rest of the post impossible to understand. GNS Forge waffle "story now" "ooda loop" "deprotagonization," Since I posted in the thread I have gone back and made an effort to read...

I GM exact like your second exaple given, but solidly using the framework of 5e. My game prep is having some ideas floating in my head of interesting scenes I'd like to introduce, but my games have no easy to lead the players to those ideas. If the party decides to spend 2 realtime hours...

Your jargon example here are words that can be learned not just from this board, but any RPG discussion, video game discussions, and even fiction writing in general. GNS? is something I am not familiar with, I don't know the origin of, I'm not particularly inspired to read about, and when I see...

I've been all in on every set so far...and it's despite Ulysses Spiele trying to outdo themselves each time being worse at communication with their backers. I think maybe it's a European culture thing? Every crowdfunding campaign I've been a part of from "the continent" has had abyssmal...

If you actually look at the website I provided you will see that almost if not all of the 20-sided die have two sets of 0-9 on them instead of 1-20. Thus finding a "proper" d20 could be difficult through much of the 1e era. Scarce meaning rare, not out-of-stock in this case. Now if the...

Let me Google that for you. http://playingattheworld.blogspot.com/2020/02/identifying-dice-of-1970s.html?m=1

Myself and all three off my coworkers have agreed that Season 4 might be/is our favorite. None of the 4 of us said the same about 2 or 3 when they were new. If the second half of S4 episodes are as good as the first half then Stranger Things is going to be going out on top as a show that stuck...

TV Show: Makes Vecna a pop culture name and shows a conclusion of a DnD campaign on par as exciting as a basketball championship. Internet Peeps: OMG...they butchered the game rules! See also: Aviation peeps complaining about the airplane scenes or the IT peeps comaining about using IP...

I'd say a good example is Maruchan(sp?) ramen noodles. The ones that are sold in 10 packs for a dollar (at least the last time I've bought them) From an overall food perspective they are "junk food". From a ramen noodle standpoint they dont have the fresh ingredients you would find in...

Here is an article talking about the growth of (non-video) gaming in general over the past few years. It specifically mentions D&D amongst other IPs. I have long said that you can't take the growth of 5e and translate that to some magical formula of design choices when the entire industry it...

My experience with 4e is that my subscription to the online tools (specifically the character builder) meant that I had every possible option at my fingertips. Once the character builder died, however, it was as messy as any other edition with multiple books....including 5e (looking at you 3-4...

He was Type 1, so the issue was physical activity affecting the "normal" amount of insulin he needed to inject. When he was outside working manual labor heavier than he normally would his body would use up extra energy and throw off the timing of his blood sugar spikes versus his insulin...

My diabetic dad would have been unconscious before finishing a sugar soda, so perhaps it's case by case. We kept a can of Pepsi in the fridge to bring him out of a low blood sugar stupor because it acted as fast as the special glucose packet made for the same reason.

Gonna need a source on that.

And here I will step in and say that if your ruleset isn't clear on how the rule is expected to be used in a common circumstance (stealth in combat) that is a tick against it's "quality" score. If your rules continue development for years and you still do not clarify (despite knowing it's an...