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I think this gets at a core difference between trad and non-trad games (storygames, story now, narrative, etc.), which is that in trad games PCs are typically trying to minimize negative consequences basically all the time. Story games often not only encourage inviting and leaning into those...

Oh cool, you're just anti all journalism? Based on some some ancient, but likely just fabricated-from-whole-cloth standard you have for what journalism should be? If that's your position, what are you doing in this thread? Like jumping into a movie discussion thread yelling "Hey guys all...

Unless the only reporting you've ever read was in newspapers, you're astonishingly out of your depth there. Read any magazine feature written in the past 100 years.

In the games I run I'm definitely in the same boat—mix of GM- and player-driven—in part because my main group is still new to games where the GM isn't fully in the driver's seat. That means I do still have to do some prep, but it's less and less, and it's been really exciting to move that...

I'm talking about a pattern of responses to threads that are about non-trad games. The implication here—as in past responses of yours to these kinds of threads—is that part of having this sort of discussion is to evangelize or really to assuage by ensuring anyone reading that non-trad games...

Asked and answered. So those are three groups of players you consider hostile to you, and two groups you neither like nor dislike?

You're exceedingly wrong about what's going on in the OP, and in this thread. This isn't about selling or teaching someone a game. As usual, you're coming at this from a familiar perspective—justify the existence of non-trad games. There's no need to do that, but you love to call for it, and...

Threads about non-trad games always wind up in this territory—demanding that people who like those games present, for some reason, a full accounting of what they also don't like about those games. Interesting that that's not the case with trad games, right? But also, if that's going to happen...

Honest question here: Do you really dislike your players?

One of the reasons crypto worked so well as a scam was because it sounded complicated, kinda like how traditional investments can be hard to parse, since market fluctuations are so weird and the entire stock market is a shared fever dream. And crypto bros (and now web3 wonks) lean into jargon...

Blockchain works as a generic term. But imagining useful, non-crypto applications for the technology always requires keeping thought experiments so vague as to be useless, because blockchain always dies in the details. Using them to deal with deepfakes, for example, would mean that all videos...

Don't let the crypto bros trick you into thinking blockchain is still a matter of debate. NFTs cratered, crypto is screwed, and web3 is a rebranding attempt. But major companies are out on this stuff, so all there's left is for individual people to trick themselves into thinking this stuff is...

There are tech bros who'd love to bend your ear about the fabulous, non-scam potential of web3. It's all bogus. Ownership of the web by its users comes from the same well-intentioned place as Bitcoin did (if you're being very charitable toward its creator or creators) but the only applications...

Blockchain isn't even good for that. Unless you want have to patient data be re-identifiable, you'd have to go with a centralized, private blockchain, and private blockchains have none of the advantages of blockchain tech, which by nature is entirely about the advantages of public, decentralized...

Funding for Kickstarters always slows way down toward the middle of a campaign, but I've been struck by just how little this one has been making over the past few days. Of course funding will pick back up toward the end, as it always does. But this? I've never seen this in a Free League...

Oh man...you could have just let it go. Didn't have to be this way, but now it is: That's from Dec 2022. Please, tell me more about how he's been playing Star Wars FFG, or any other Star Wars rpg thing, for a real long time.

If that's true, then my bad. The way he started tweeting about the Star Wars FFG dice not too long ago was very wide-eyed, bushy-tailed and "look at what we have here guys!!" I guess that's just like, his style. I'm no Colville deep cuts head, though, so I'll take your word for it that he's a...

Yeah the fact that, as a designer, he only just got around to trying out the Star Wars FFG dice is not a great sign.