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ah, yes, he definitely has an opinion ;) That does not mean the points he brings up are not valid, I might disagree with his proposed solution however. I do think we are held back by clinging to old ideas too tightly, and I agree that ‘Fighter, Str 17’ is a chess piece, not a character. That...

not amphibian enough

I saw no rantiness in that quote. You also should heed your own words, your recent posts about Baker do not sound like you are open to other opinions, see

having that authority and making constant use of it are not the same thing

different people have different opinions, that should not come as a surprise. So just because some people do not like X does not mean that it is unanimous consent that X is not allowed

to me it always has value, because he has given it more thought than most. I do not need to agree with his game designs to recognize that he is grappling with the fundamental principles of TTRPG design rather than trying to tweak D&D a bit

the guy who came up with Apocalypse World and probably the mind that influenced TTRPG design the most in the last 10 years, whether your like the direction or not. At a minimum from an intellectual, game theory perspective I am interested in his analysis and ideas.

you certainly sounded like any number of hooks provided by the DM still means the DM is in control of everything and the poor players have no say Whether your sandboxes have rumors or not is immaterial. Is a game in which the DM provides all hooks and the players choose among those provided...

that version is the DM ‘more or less’ driving the campaign. An alternative to that is the players saying ‘we are looking for a dragon lair’ and guess what, the DM will provide the means to locate one and then the lair itself once the characters get there. And in this scenario the players cannot...

then I am not sure why you brought it up as if the DM not being able to do so were a bad thing

ok, but what is the likelihood of that happening… they can still do that even if the DM introduced the lair, the assumption simply was that they would not because they know they stand no chance

if the GM exercises it without consideration of the players, yes making these decisions was a choice

do you think the players are significantly better at this?

not sure there is one answer everyone agrees on, you seem to say that even 100 aren’t as long it is the DM that brings them up. Is that correct?

as opposed to the players only seeking out a dragon lair and then finding it once they have leveled up enough when the players control the fiction? That does not appear to be a big difference…

given that you do not get anywhere close to the required XP to level up and they all use milestones leveling instead , I doubt that

Goodman does not get the IP for free, either they are licensing it and JG gets a percentage or Goodman bought the rights outright in which case JG still got something for it. I don’t see a scenario in which JG got nothing

I would agree, the only question is what qualifies as a heuristic. Is the DM following their model of what they consider to be realistic and probable in the world a heuristic, or does it take a set of rules in a book for that?

the option to call for a Steel test

from my perspective they are arguing over whether the degree is meaningful and whether the approach works for them at all I haven’t seen anyone argue that players contributing to the fiction directly is giving them less control (or even equal control)