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And what does this have to do with art that treats the feminine body as something to be ogled at and to be titillated by?

Fine's Shared Fantasy is every bit as important as Peterson's work, and highly recommend Ranged Touch's Game Studies Study Buddies episode on the book (as well as episodes 46 and 47, about The Elusive Shift and White's history of The Forge) if you want primers on it. Otherwise I am deeply...

Skyrim's radiant quests are not made in any way similar to the random text generation of an LLM. Everything that can be made as a quest in the game falls under certain parameters. "Go fight [bandit] in [cave]." type stuff. An "AI" (large language model random text generator) GM would simply be...

Sometimes you google a guy's name and the only results are either bad things he did or Certain Websites being like "they're trying to CANCEL Frank Mentzer over at rpgnet!". It took more time to actually figure out what his credits were...

Oh hey, this thread wasn't nuked by the time I got home. Fun fact: the Frank Mentzer (how curious that he misspelled his name in a way that may make it inconvenient to google him!) mentioned by Now-Banned-Guy is an infamous serial sexual harasser who would wield the fact he was buds with Gygax...

There is very much a sense in the "the GM is the sole authority" camp in this thread that if you permit players to be proactive, they will somehow ruin the game and turn in to selfish monsters who just want to "win the game". First off, I would love for you to tell your friends that you believe...

Why do you assume that the only reason a person may make a character-based decision, or engage with the fiction in a way explicitly defined by the GM, as "removing obstacles"? I feel like almost every example in this thread has been about people wanting MORE obstacles to deal with...

Can the discussion perhaps be moved away from immersion? Debating over a term that has no concrete universal definition is not going to benefit anyone, because different people mean different things by immersion due to it being a solely subjective experience.

132 pages of some people saying "different things are possible" and others saying "nu uh". Truly impressive... This thread has drifted to like 6 different topics at this point.

The game designers' intent and goals in creating the game you are playing, by necessity, makes them almost an invisible player in your session - their decisions shape everything you do in a game.

I would love for some of the people in this thread to go play a GMless game like Orbital or Dream Askew or For the Queen just to experience something outside of the strict, regimented idea that there must be a GM or that sole authority must be present in the game at all.

the most powerful bloodtide post on record.

Kill Him Faster is a fun little game about time travellers speedrunning killing Hitler.

But all of that can still be true in other "cultures of play". Bringing characters to multiple games is something I think of as being part of Gygax's era and mode that the blogpost author is always posting about on Reddit being the Ultimate Gaming Experience.

Has there ever been any other writing on the "Six Cultures of Play" besides the original blog post? I have never been able to comprehend the author's ideas because of his terrible naming conventions and the fact most of it is dedicated to "and here's why this thing isn't Real Gaming". Has anyone...

I want that 300k funding achievement for The Between so bad.

Yeah, unfortunately Google has deemed "learning information via our search tools" to be an unnecessary part of their business. I have till yet to see a compelling rationale for "AI" text and images to be used. Much like crypto, the only visible use case that is ever seen is making/buying...

Hell yeah. I'm starting a game of The Between soon, another Carved from Brindlewood game, and I cannot WAIT.

Disregarding authority or whatever, it's a very weird argumentative tactic to declare that all RPGs are about combat and then reject all evidence to the contrary.

Coolest and most interesting character death is when it just happens to be the most dramatically fulfilling thing that can happen. Love when death is a player choice.