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In the tail end of my post, I mentioned that I do not favor 'social combat' systems, but instead favor systems like the DMG social influence system that starts and ends with the fiction. Similar systems include Chronicle of Darkness' Social Influence system, Exalted Third Edition's intimacies...

We had similar issues when we first started to play Infinity (which has a similar currency). Spending to add narrative complications or raise the difficulty became a big part of my GM's spends increasingly over time.

I think in part why I differ from a lot of those who do not want to involve mechanics in social situations is that the sorts of social encounters that see table time in a lot of games I play are not the more convivial convince someone through argumentation or straightforward negotiation. It's...

I fully understand that the level of commitment and interest I have in the games I play (and run) is not the norm. However, to have the sorts of play experiences I prefer it needs to be the norm at the table. I do not think anyone should be talked down to or shamed, but the standard is the...

@pemerton Strength includes the portfolio of Constitution in D&D but loses the climbing. jumping, swimming portfolio that now belongs to Agility.

One of the really nice things about Daggerheart from my perspective is that there are no derived values. Your Damage thresholds, evasion, hp, etc are not dependent on your attribute array in any way. Features/abilities can change that, but picking up a playbook class packet is very...

The Runepriest and Seeker being bad designs is not an indication of anything other than that those were poorly designed. Particularly given the evidence of all the other excellent designs in the AEDU paradigm.

I have not had a chance to run a live session yet, but I have run a few a solo test combats using different sets of the pregens and the first encounter from the quickstart adventure and it felt pretty fluid. Very dynamic. The momentum and frame shifts seem like they could feel pretty movie like...

I really like this. Pretty much like Marvel Heroic popcorn initiative for player characters. Might play around with this when I do a playtest one shot.

Yeah. My general viewpoint is that when a game includes player principles and best practices you should trust and expect players to follow them. If you have a player that is not interested in playing the game in that way, then it's probably not the best game for them. The same can be said for...

Session Zero is the start, not the end, of an ongoing conversation about the group's expectations, boundaries, and desires for the game. As a game evolves, we need to check in with each other and make sure we all stay on the same page. Part of your responsibility as a GM is to facilitate that...

Here's how I view situation rather than adventure based play: There should be conflicting parties who want different things. There should be no obvious this is what a good little PC should do path. It should be fully up to the players how they choose to have their characters address and not...

It smells a bit like a plot to me. I would have to know more about how the scenario is presented and the structure that surrounds it, but at the very least the language used (villain) presupposes how players are meant to address the scenario. It also does not seem like the sort of scenario that...

The sense I get from The Alexandrian is that he's actually talking about prepping adventures with hooks players can opt into or not, but once you have that binary other than peacing out it's going to follow a fairly routine structure whether node based or purely linear in nature. Sure, side...

Sure, but not all traditional gaming involves hooking players or deciding ahead of time how they should approach things or pulling them back on track.

Including NPCs with agenda of their own is not plot. Attempting to decide what player character aims should be most definitely is or what will definitely happen regardless of player character efforts is.

In the same way that it matters to people who wish to solve a preestablished mystery if the GM makes it up as they go or if Brindlewood Bay type mechanics are in use it absolutely matters to me if a GM is attempting to set a player character's agenda or establishing scenario details towards...

Sure, but in no way does that address criticism of the technique from the perspective of don't prep plots - prep situations.

Fundamentally what we're looking at is a matchmaking issue. How much overall effort does it take to find and select compatible people to play the games you want to play. A higher volume player base where a smaller proportion fit the criteria you are looking for can make finding people to play...

So, I do think the rising tide lifts all boats theory within the particular subset of group based archetypal fantasy action-adventure games. So, I know it's true that Pathfinder Second Edition can be selling far more than Pathfinder First Edition while being a much smaller segment. I think the...