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No, I think you miss the basic point: Properly priming the players, so that they have enough information, but not too much, and retain the idea that the information you've primed with are suggestions, but not the totality of what they can choose to do, is NOT EASY, and one can slip into one of...

And, in my reading, that line I bolded is not an accurate representation. Since the person who said it originally reacted positively to my post, I think I got pretty near the mark. So, EzekielRaiden was specifically and explicitly expressing frustration at how their actual inquiries weren't...

Yep. The original question was framed a bit in terms of the processes and procedures used to avoid some things that would be considered failures in the context of a sandbox. 1) When I got to framing the answer in terms of Skilled Play, I believe I took it off that particular line of thinking...

Wow. You keep returning to that, no matter how often I say this: How well it would fit wasn't the question!

So, I think I see part of the issue: The players don't know what they don't know. There is typically some minimum of information a player needs to have in order to make informed decisions and have wants and desires. Before they have that minimum information, they cannot generally be expected...

Two people, with good intent, can still miscommunicate.

The three-prongs: 1) The players are not given prompts by the GM - players have no clue what to choose to do, and "anything they want" is not a sufficient answer, as one cannot make an informed choice without information. 2) The GM prompts everything in existence in the sandbox - the players are...

Do you realize that you just continued the stonewalling with a non-answer? "It looks like this style as a problem, and nobody will tell me how it is handled!" "Well, maybe this style isn't for you..." This is deflection. EzekielRaiden didn't ask what style they'd like best! They asked how...

Looks like it was intended as a full series on Disney+, but after production of 10 episodes it fell to a budget axe. AMC picked it up as a "special event".

Well, I have enjoyed playing it a lot. If you like Fate, but want it a little cruncher than normal, this might be a good game for you. It was published in 2010, so its lore covers up to somewhere around Small Favor or Turn Coat, the 10th or 11th book in the series. Butcher, a gamer himself...

Well, as I noted, for a world where social positioning and politics matter, this IS a simulation of that.

It does? If you walk into a huge, ancient red dragon's den, and get into a knock-down, drag-out physical fight, and lose, you die. If you walk into the Faerie Court, and get into a knock-down, drag-out political fight, and lose.... you die. Or wind up in servitude in Underhill for a century...

If it were so great a tactic, we'd expect it to be used a lot. So can you point to cases where it happened? Because my point was only that using assassins can be an amazingly effective tactic to get yourself assassinated. And most leaders know that. Questionable game design in one game...

That's actually, "...in aspic". And it was a common thing as a holiday food in my house - usually served with mustard and/or vinegar. Not everyone's from America, folks. Just 'cause you think it is gross, doesn't mean it actually is. :p

In Dresden Files, if you cannot absorb Stress from a Social source, you are Taken Out, just like any other stress. And, whoever took you out gets to narrate what that means. In general, it should narratively mean that you lose all social standing - it can be no friends, no money, no support...

May I introduce you to... the Gallery of Regrettable Foods?

Except, the industry started without those guards, and it didn't evolve that way. Evolution is not directed. You cannot predict what way it will go. Maybe you'll get a glorious eagle, or maybe you'll get a dodo. Games are designed, not evolved. And folks designed those protections because...

The Dresden Files RPG is Fate-based, and it has Physical, Mental, and Social stress tracks.

Nobody reports posts in song these days... "We wish... no must... make our disgust of this abuse perfectly clear!"

Looking at the table of contents... Over half the document is about tournaments, rather than individual games. Ten percent of it is a listing of the changes since the last version of the document. About 5% of it is about use of a chess clock. There's a section in there on the behavior of...