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Where I work (non-tech) a bunch of the folks under the age of 30 play TTRPGs & war-games / watch anime / do general geeky things, the people >40 generally don't. That's not to say there's not lots of Gen X - Boomers who play, but proportionally you're just less likely to see em. The vast...

I'm now at the "fighting the scheduling monster" level of setting an in-person group up! ...started to remember why I've just defaulted to online, haha. Alas, my specific suburb is kind of a desert of good places to meet up to play.

Because it's exhausting to have conservative D&D players show up to all sorts of places across the internet going "I hate X new thing, old D&D is better" over and over. Literally what the OP was about. The most egregious stuff is more the "I think Session 0 guidance is horrible and dumb" tbh...

If you roll low, you fail to gain your objective/intent/etc. You lose. Your loss means something new needs to happen. To leave the fiction the same as it was means you don't lose, which undermines the seriousness of the stakes at hand. Why would I cheapen what the player wants? Clearly it was...

All these posts boil down to is restating "I don't like it because..." over and over with different contrived straw arguments, willfully ignoring everything that gets posted in response to instead belabor another side point, and then consistently going "everything in newer D&D that says...

Some of us have been trying to belabor for idk somehow like 300 pages or some bs that the original example of "how do you fail forward a locked door" is incredibly bad, along with countless examples provided by many people of what that situation would actually look like across multiple rule...

Concur all.

Yeah, I'd ask "survivor of what?" If it's "Survive at all costs" that's going to mean different things then "survivor of the war" or "survivor in the wild" or... And once you start getting some answers, keep asking questions about how that Experience plays in to do the thing the book talks...

Oh the "optimizer" discussion, my only problem player in that regard has been a player who was just a freaking spotlight hog across the board; and then built their character to own said spotlight. As others have noted, that's just a crappy player. I have an optimizer in my Stonetop (PBTA) game...

Are there any major fiction-focused games out there that don’t have a GM with fictional authority apart from the spend of metacurrency? Is this a contrast to like, FATE or Fabula Ultima or something? To me the one difference between DH and something like most mainline PBTAs or BITD is that...

IT's explicitly about "Experiences," the DH mechanical widget.

Oop, fixed.

I swear to god you either have to be doing this on purpose to be difficult or somehow failing to read a jillion replies to you on how “fail forward” actually works. I’ve replied directly to you pointing this out and saying how fail forward means failure still, but you keep coming back to this...

Yeah wasn’t including you there, just grousing about how often I see people who should know better making assumptions not that different from Micah :P.

I see this in games that explicitly have metacurreny that allow it (Fabula Points in Fabula Ultima come to mind, FATE as well maybe?), so long as the player isn’t contradicting established fiction. Those are not narrativist games however. Generally how I’d handle above is there’s either a...

Also the non-ghost player is decidedly not “fit!” The expected outcome is generally “eaten by ghost.” For some additional context to @Micah Sweet ‘s question: PBTA games tagged as such by the original designers of the engine include things as diverse as Apocalypse World (GM, playbooks, 2d6...

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Yeah, the social SC in the core book being one of the absolutely worst examples certainly didn't help. I do like the idea of Social challenge NPCs just being a self-contained thing in DH, it's a neat refinement.

Flags are "game mechanics which explicit aspects of a character designed for players to tell the GM what kind of stories and conflicts they want for their characters" (link to a really good blog from the guy who largely introduced the concept to the discourse). They're super common and...

Because I like characters to have explicit Flags on their sheet we can look at to challenge in play, I’ve asked my players to make one of their starting ones an interesting Belief or Instinct they want to exemplify/struggle against.