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The advancement math is really my biggest concern. Not just the ability to alpha strike, but also the ability to like stack defensive builds. Like the Stalwart Guardian who goes hard in the paint for thresholds and armor boxes - how does that stack up against monster math and compared to more...

I haven't seen many of his videos, but in his responses to survey he seemed pretty even handed to me. He had a pretty positive view of D&D and mixed feelings on Wizards, primarily targeted towards business decisions rather than product or design decisions. It does not come across as particularly...

For me personally, one of the biggest selling points is that it seems like a game that does not feel a need to protect players from one another or to ration out characters' ability to impact the setting. Domain card abilities are straight forward, contain few caveats and do not go out of their...

I think we should look at this through the prism of the game's core premise and principles. The sense I get is that it is intended that the other player characters are not just people you adventure with, but some of your best friends in the world. People who have been there for you and you can...

Yeah. I think "rules light" has come to be associated with games that explicitly specify where and how GM judgement is intended to be used, but most of those games are not really lighter on rules than 5e. Like because there isn't a specific mechanic that says this is exactly what happens in...

Sure, there have been a substantial number of changes to D&D over the years but we're talking about over the course of 50 years. That's a lot of years. Take a look at something like Shadowrun, Vampire, Exalted or Legend of the Five Rings over a 20-year timespan and you will see a much more...

I'm a very big fan of https://www.youtube.com/@GhostfireGaming and https://www.youtube.com/@KnightsofLastCall though the latter is much more focused on roleplaying games in a broader sense.

Speaking personally the right sorts of character sheets enhance my immersion because they point me back to the things that matter to my character. In Blades this includes Vice, Trauma, Relationships, Heritage and Belief. In L5R (5e) this includes Duty/Desire, Honor, Glory, Passions...

My biggest concern is how hope and fear currencies, especially fear, interface with GM Moves. In systems like 2d20 threat is used to apply the equivalent of hard moves in a game system that otherwise does not integrate them. Based on my initial combat tests I feel like it functions fairly well...

Except that stop motion initiative is a gameplay abstraction for simultaneous action, one that can vary from game to game in its execution. If you want players to depend solely on fictional reasoning why not simply make that the mechanic? What good are the rules doing?

We'll have to see what tuning is like, but it has a fairly forgiving death mechanic that can have a lingering effect on the narrative.

Looking forward to hearing more about how it goes @DragonLancer ,

This is certainly a bad look for them as a publisher, particularly the part where they are not open to returning the rights to the products in question to the development studios responsible for the games that are being removed from the market thereby closing said developers off from residual...

In the tail end of my post, I mentioned that I do not favor 'social combat' systems, but instead favor systems like the DMG social influence system that starts and ends with the fiction. Similar systems include Chronicle of Darkness' Social Influence system, Exalted Third Edition's intimacies...

We had similar issues when we first started to play Infinity (which has a similar currency). Spending to add narrative complications or raise the difficulty became a big part of my GM's spends increasingly over time.

I think in part why I differ from a lot of those who do not want to involve mechanics in social situations is that the sorts of social encounters that see table time in a lot of games I play are not the more convivial convince someone through argumentation or straightforward negotiation. It's...

I fully understand that the level of commitment and interest I have in the games I play (and run) is not the norm. However, to have the sorts of play experiences I prefer it needs to be the norm at the table. I do not think anyone should be talked down to or shamed, but the standard is the...