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I'd hate to say it, but I'm definitely a better GM than player. As a player I have many of the same traits noted by others --- I get impatient/restless if things move too slow. I don't find character optimization to generally be satisfying, but as a player it's one of the only loci of control...

Two quick notes --- I think player typologies are useful, but moderately to largely overstated as a driving factor in RPG game development / theory evolution. I love board games. I love deep, tactical, heavy resource management and combat in board games (FFG Imperial Assault, LotR Living Card...

Thank you, everyone, this thread is a veritable gold mine. @Manbearcat, at some point I'd love to take you up on watching a session, but as it turns out, my bi-weekly game that usually runs on Thursdays is actually running tonight (Weds.), so I won't be able to pop in. Feel free to PM me in a...

David Byrne I'm sure would have a comment on that . . . .

I disagree with this. Prior to 2015 or so, I was completely blind to any theory that didn't directly play into my preconceptions about "the way RPGs are supposed to work"---rules had to "process simulate" the game world. Dissociated mechanics were "bad" and "wrong", and not only that, were going...

"And you may say to yourself, 'My God, what have I done?'"

So I backed the Court of Blades kickstarter a few months ago, and only now just started digging into the "preview" PDF. Everything I've read so far has been tremendously compelling, and very much in line with what I hoped it would be when I backed it. The "preview" is a 90-95% complete set of...

So I'm thinking about two approaches I've made to character building recently, one for our Tiny Frontiers (Tiny D6 sci-fi), and one for D&D 5e (using a standard PHB). I think there's some really interesting "stuff" in the way you described setting up your The Between character, @Ovinomancer...

Willingness to self-reflect and incorporate feedback. Being fans of your players. Knowing how and when to push pacing / move ahead, and when to slow down / scale back.

Aarakocra present deceitful, feathery nemeses.

I've played every Tomb Raider video game released since 2006, enjoyed all of them to varying degrees. I even enjoyed the wildly uneven Alicia Vikander movie. And this announcement elicits a resounding, massive "meh" for me. I just don't see the point. I guess if it was done as a tightly...

The only thing that would cause me to "hate" an RPG is if the system wholly fails to accomplish what the mechanics plus the descriptive text say it should accomplish. The only two systems I've tried that would fall into that camp would be GURPS and Fate Core, and even then I think my...

I refer to it as "principled illusionism" in the sense that the GM at least gives some thought to the player inputs and resulting outputs, compares it against the fiction state, and then resolves the action declaration . . . but would it matter either way? There's a million ways an FKR GM / GM...

This is going to sound strange, considering I spent bundles of energy defending PbtA / FitD / Ironsworn in the Apocalypse World thread, but I can kind-of, sort-of understand what FKR is aiming at, a bit . . . . Our current game of Tiny Frontiers (Tiny D6 sci-fi in space) is probably pretty...

See that bolded part, right there? This is the problem. You MUST let that impulse go in PbtA play. If you can't let it go, you're not going to like it. 100%, you'll end up fighting the system the whole way.

Heh, I'm chuckling at myself now, because much like the other participants in the conversation, I'm trying to figure out how to actually explain the principles of play in a way that makes sense without just saying, "Play the game and find out." So I mentioned playing Ironsworn solo earlier...

Tossing my hat back in the ring for as second --- Quick note for @Faolyn -- Powered by the Apocalypse / Forged in the Dark games didn't fully make sense to me until I played Ironsworn. Honestly, if you want to really get a feel for what it should feel like, pick up the free Ironsworn PDF and...

Never played Apocalypse World proper. However, I do have some experience with Dungeon World, which is a somewhat "direct" conversion, and a bit more experience with Ironsworn, which is more "PbtA adjacent," as it's a bit of a hybrid between PbtA and Blades in the Dark / Forged in the Dark...

Context: From 2013 until the spring of 2021, Savage Worlds received 95% of our group's total play time, typically playing twice a month for 4-5 hours. With the occasional off-week and cancellation, we typically would play 20-24 sessions a year. I was the GM 60% of the time (100+ sessions), and a...

Stabbing spaceships, bending space-time, yay!