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I think you misunderstood. In engaging with any mechanic, players make decisions to influence the outcome. In blackjack, for example, after every card is dealt, if the total is not yet over 21, the player gets to choose - hit or stay? I am looking for where the player engages with this mechanic.

It is... nothing at all like FATE.

I would want to see some more about how much the new rules still fit with older material.

I worked a bit for the Census Bureau back in 2010, and they take prints for that. Umbran looks at the box of medical latex gloves he has for helping his wife with cleaning up messy cases, then looks back, and shrugs.

Excellent.

My goals are the same as they are every night Pinky: Try to take over the world! Per what I've said - I need to be honest with myself about them. That does not mean I should open them up for public discussion, review, or critique.

I am saying that descriptions of 1000 pages of headbutting that amount to, "It is all THEIR fault," are transparently inaccurate.

You say this as if the entities at the table are not primates with very complex social dynamics, behaviors, and pressures upon them... ...or, perhaps, as if it is rhetorically convenient to ignore or dismiss the realities of real-world human social dynamics.

And, I ask again, "Yes. So?" And by that, I mean that there's moments we each should ask ourselves, "Okay, why am I engaging here? What's my rhetorical goal here? Are my reasons and goals reasonable in this context? If so, are my words and approach actually going to move towards those...

That is not an accurate description of the dynamics of this thread.

It sounds like a solution in search of a problem. It is more complicated than many other mechanics, but I don't see what payoff we are supposed to get for that added complication. You don't say what genre you think will be well-served by such a mechanic, of what issue(s) you perceive with...

Yes. So...? Like, it is no news flash that games with different rules play differently. That is precisely why we have them! If all games played exactly the same, it would follow that there would only be one game on the planet! While, of course, you get to choose what game is at your table...

Mod Note: Your rhetoric here is hyperbolic, and not acceptable. This is a discussion on a messageboard. Nobody is getting "driven out of the hobby" by what is said here. If you cannot disagree with folks without accusing them like this, it is time for you to take a break from the discussion.

Quite the opposite. It makes for interesting analysis - if your mind is open about what ought to be analyzed.

Hardly. "NPCs have goals, motivations, and desires that aren't directly murderous" is not "woke". Yeah, well, if your players really like the murderhobo vibe, it'd be a challenge. Beyond that, though, all it really takes is, get this - asking politely what others want - and ways to get by...

The only people who can make demands or set expectations for what happens at your table must be sitting at your table. The rest is rhetoric. Cannot? Says... you? Or else... what, exactly? So, if you don't mind me asking - is drawing lines in the sand over what other people can and cannot...

I have known that I am okay with mild funky cheese in the context of hot sauce for decades. But it is pretty specific and limited. If I said that in discussing food, and someone later made a dish for me, they'd be apt to assume they knew they could stretch the limits, and get it wrong. Saying...

You're a lich. You'll be around for millennia, and spend centuries contemplating your shriveled navel. You're gonna forget stuff. Or, the next avatar of the God of Necromancy is gonna come through in some number of centuries, and will want to know how to pop out to pick up peanut butter and...

Why do people write down important passwords and leave them on a post-it on their monitors?

This comes across as either "whataboutism" or a simple failure to realize that humans aren't 100% consistent. I, personally, have no use for blue cheese, and have been quoted as thinking that funk is great in music, but not in food. Except... I just had buffalo chicken fingers with blue cheese...