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Unrelated to the above: Wow, that's a lot of wrong to fit into a single post. Good job!

Somehow I doubt "Having done their damage, they decided to move on" is as likely as it should be.

I think backstories for level 1 characters can be fine, so long as the players realize they're writing backstories for level 1 characters. These days I tend to give the players some details about where things are starting off, and ask them for people or things their characters are connected...

Even if the designer/s wanted to make the game more ... compatible, I guess, with that sort of character thinking, that's almost certainly not what playtesting should be about. At least, it's perfectly reasonable for it not to be. I haven't (yet) had too much problem with backstories in the...

A minor quibble: There is a slim (plausibly very slim) chance they're just coming from a place of very narrow experience. A) it's not the way to bet and B) it's probably not worth engaging, anyway, at least on that.

That makes sense. I'm the primary cook for my wife and me, because I'm the pickier eater by far--though it's really about there just being some ingredients I will not eat. I try to make stuff we'll both enjoy, but the fact she enjoys some of the ingredients I will not eat does mean she doesn't...

I'm a picky eater in some ways--I always have been--but I'm an adventurous eater in others. I'm also very much mostly responsible for making my own food choices at this point, though I'll admit I don't always make great ones.

If you want the same pizza you had when you were ten, that's fine, I'm not inclined to even try to stop you. I, personally, do not want the same pizza I had when I was ten. This does not need to make conflict between us, you eat your pizza and I'll eat mine.

For whatever it's worth, I read Agency and it worked well as a standalone, not knowing it was part of a triology. The Pattern Recognition trilogy, similarly, work as individual books, if I remember correctly (it's been a few years).

I must not miss the point I must not miss the point I must not miss the point

You could absolutely curate such a list from the Cypher Core Rulebook, but I admit that'd be some work. IIRC, the Core Rulebook has sections about such games.

We were contractors for the Library of Congress. We were required to use correct pronunciations (where "correct" meant from specific sources).

When I worked recording audiobooks, we played that kind of game with pronunciations.

As much as Intrusions felt like Compels to me, I agree completely that Cypher does not play at all like Fate. I don't believe I said it did. (Others do seem to be arguing that it does.) EDIT: In fact, I kinda strongly disagree with people comparing the way Cypher's characters are summed up in a...

They seemed more than "superficially similar" to me, but it's probable that judgment is a matter of perception that might legitimately vary person-to-person. I'm more than willing to accept that you found them to be exactly as you describe them.

The primary thing I disliked about it turned out to be the primary thing I disliked about Fate--at least, it felt close to me. When I ran Fate I was garbage at using Compels, so the Fate Point Economy never worked the way it was supposed to. I looked at Cypher, realized I wasn't going to Intrude...

Heh. Looks as though you've contributed to the conversation as much as you usually do. And it looks as though you've been kinda shrugged off appropriately. Good job, well done!

The big problem I have at this point with longer novels is that I've gotten into the habit of reading a novel in the evening between dinner and bed (on nights when I'm not doing something more social). A really big novel will either need a couple-three nights or I'll have to make special plans...

Yeah, I'm very intentionally staying out of the threads where people are being fans of games I have no interest in--even the threads where at least some people are complaining some about those games. I'm genuinely happy people are getting enjoyment out of those games, even if I very much don't...

We have always been at war with Eastasia, yes.