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I spent about six months doing that with the 4e rules, after we bounced off it for regular play.

Please note that in all your examples, the character's patron is an active part of the campaign that appears and interacts with the character regularly. Mephisto, the Devil, Galactica, Malbolge...none of them are ignored nonentities in those stories. Read my comments above and you'll see that's...

If someone talks to me about a problem they're having with the rules, the first thing I'll suggest (if they're sure it's a problem) is to houserule it.

Well first of all, a narrative-based supers game? I can't imagine a campaign with a better excuse for PC specialness. 100%! Secondly, you know where I stand. My preference is that the only differences between PCs and NPCs is that the former have a player at the helm, and our attention at the...

So what I'm hearing is, Discord is "easier" because of inertia. Great.

Not exactly the same in all cases, but usually close enough for cogent discussion.

At least one episode of TNG was literally Die Hard on a space ship. Picard was in the vents! Edit: Starship Mine! Thank you!

The ala carte aspect of D&DB was the only thing that made buying content that way remotely palatable.

I don't know. IMO Janeway made a lot of questionable calls...

I don't remember. It's been about 30 years since I've read it. I believe I saw it in the excellent novel Bloodline, by Claudia Gray.

Yeah, the Ep 3 novelization is very solid.

I always liked the idea (from the novels) that while Luke went on and on to his sister about the good in Dad and his redemption, Leia never really believed it. She wasn't there, after all, and she remembers her father forcing her to watch her homeworld be destroyed and her adopted parents be killed.

I would happily watch that show.

A rating system without a basis for comparison makes zero sense to me. Sorry.

Fair enough. I whole-heartedly agree that Alexander's opinion on the subjective should be stated as just that. None of us objective answers on these things.

What does that have to do with the thread topic?

Sounds like you spent a lot of time trying and largely failing to find a game that suits your GMing style. Sorry to hear that.

Except in the example the players said they were pulled out of the perspective of their character.

Is Justin Alexander a proponent of storygames? I'm not deeply familiar with his discourse. Mostly just heard of the guy and his website.

The second can have their ice cream. But Alexander is under no obligation either to serve it to them, or sing it's praises.