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Princess is by default a gendered term, and more specifically, it conjures up images of very pink damsels in distress: girls whose purpose is to be married off, harassed by evil queens, kidnapped by brigands or dragons, etc., with the only benefits being the ability to sing and call upon your...

They're usually about low-key, mellow situations, including things like tea parties, household events, and comfortable things. Most of them do have things that cause tension and raise the stakes, these are generally things like family issues, not combat or having to save lives.

I apologize, then; I misunderstood.

Sure. Why not. If people use the term correctly, which a lot of people here are not. That's why we had probably hundreds of pages of screaming cooks.

Especially when "play pretend" does the job just as well and is completely open to all modes of play and all genders.

That is, of course, an opinion. But saying that the background world is described predominately by the GM does not make the game GM-driven. That was rhetorical, mostly, but this very much is my point. If there's no known exit, then you have the PC/player not only create the meaning out of...

So? Not everyone wants to flounder, and not everyone wants advice instead of rules. And every game mechanic demands that situations are handled in a certain way.

Level Up does that as well, with a generic Supply that counts as either a day's rations or as a simple, one-use travel item (like mosquito netting, useful for traveling through a swamp or jungle). A lot of Exploration Challenges cause you to lose Supply on a bad roll. It should be a snap to...

Wait, so you assume that because I try not to have "nothing happens" be the result, that means I have a boring game?

It''s not a question of how much or how little time it takes. It's a question of the result. "Nothing happens" means that the game just stops because nothing happens. Sure, the PCs can choose to do something else or come up with another method but that's besides the point. Because this isn't...

What I'm really saying is that "nothing happens" is boring.

A little bit of both, but yeah, a lot of the second--the likelyhood that these runes mean exactly that is quite unlikely. Unless there is a good reason to think otherwise, of course, but I'm pretty sure there were no reasons established in pemerton's example.

Maybe you're doing a really bad job of explaining the difference. So far, all you've said is "it's different!" and "Hoping something happens isn't the same thing as making it happen!" even though your example shows exactly that. This is completely unnecessary and highly obnoxious pedantry and...

Someone on reddit made a post with pretty much the exact same issues--unless that you under a different name--so maybe it'll get some traction. One thing they pointed out was the domains, especially with the Poisoner. It makes me wonder if we should have a Poison domain. It could be a mix of...

I hope you filled out the survey, because those are good points.

If you're going to point out things that insult you, shouldn't you also point out things that are insulting to others as well?

There have been people who have very strongly hinted at the inferiority of narrative methods. As one example (I'm not going through the last 500 pages) every time "quantum cook" was used, for example. That wasn't a compliment. That wasn't a neutral observation. It was an insult, a direct...

Weirdly, they don't seem to have realized that "a HP" is incorrect. It's an HP. Unless that's correct in some version of non-American English and that's what the final editor/proofreader writes in. But I'm guess they just did a find/replace on "a hit point."

While this is true, don't forget that @pemerton said that he put them there because it would be fun and interesting, but otherwise without any meaning to them or their location. And while a quacamole recipe would be silly, since there are, as I pointed out elsewhere, probably hundreds of equally...

Because most of those times, those are things that, if it were a game, wouldn't require a roll to begin with. And also because games aren't real life. I don't play a game to be bored because nothing is going on.