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I'm not sure he grasps the importance of what's going on here.

It's Bigby I'm most disappointed in. He's an NPC in my AD&D campaign, so I'll be having words with him on Thursday night.

So these are not so much pitches as examples of 'money left on the table' (imho of course): Space Fantasy Science Planet Opera Wars Setting - SF & SF2 shows there's a desire for this, as do the 10000 B/X-based space fantasy games and Hasbro already owns your Transformers and your Power Rangers...

General Generalization was my fave GI Joe.

That's not so much a failure of player agency, as a failure of the referee to set up realistic player expectations.

This is what it comes down to. No shade. Some DMs run the worlds that exist in their heads, and the players are visitors in that world, and if they don't grok the rules then EFFEM! Nothing wrong with that.

None of those examples deny player agency. If there's nothing, no how, nuh uh, no way the players can influence a situation? Attempt after attempt? Idea after idea? That's a denial of player agency. If the players want to achieve A and the referee sets their heart against the players ever...

A quest is not just a general goal, not in fantasy fiction. It's either an achievable goal (no matter how unachievable the individual links in the chain may seem), or it's a quest without end, a wild-goose-chase. The player wants to find their parent's killer. The GM decides a) this is...

Player Agency is thinking outside the box and the referee leaning into it. Player Agency is when the players say "No! This will not stand!" and the referee re-tools everything around the new line drawn in the sand. Player Agency is when the players break stuff and jump reality because they...

Growing your own vegetables is illegal, citizen. Please report to the Bureau of Rainbow Herbicides at 0730 hours for a thorough defoliation.

The worst sort of refereeing is when you Illusionism up a Railroad and tie the players to the tracks. They're left just lying there, tied up, terrified they're going to get run over, but the whole railroad and railcar and sleepers and ties thing is just an illusion, they could get up and walk...

While I've ranged across the entire gamut of #1-#4, I guess my preference is for 1-2. Depends on the group and the game, of course. Heavy PvP can be fun with the right people.

I will support the sequel if and when it uses Second Edition mechanics with a smattering of Player's Options.

Calling one thing a "fantasy heartbreaker" a generation or more ago, then calling the resurgence of that aesthetic an "OSR" decades later just seems like the natrual development of human things over time, to me, anthropologically, and stuff. Also the heartbreakers were always trying to "add"...

What the chief-scienticians of the Galactic Council call the "Kanye Threshold".

Been in the hobby forty years and I've missed the "my pet D&D" wave. Could you point me in the direction of "my pet D&D" products? I don't recall any games calling themselves that in a folk-movement type stylee that helped undermine the corporate hegemony for a hot minute, but then I've had...

We don't bother much with resource management, and I can't be bothered getting into the "but what even is an OSR?" debate, but a few of the reasons we run AD&D instead of 1D&D5e are: Reaction rolls mean not every encounter is a fight and any encounter can snowball into spontaneous RP No...

Some sound plain clunky and the rest have a strong whiff of Limmy's Falconhoof about them.

The only things I dislike about the BIFT set-up is that it makes me want to fire up a smoke (bifter=cigarette/joint in certain dialects of UK English) and b) as a Chaotic type, I'd prefer multiple-choice BIFTs that change from town to town.

Aragon: Fighter Gandalf: Elf King Arthur: Fighter Conan: Fighter/Thief (so, Halfling) Darth Vader: Elf Every GoT Character: Fighter Napoleon: French