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Even without going into the depths of "should we count not obstructing as support", the way 3e, 4e, 5e works does actively obstruct character-driven play. The most basic thing: There's a Cleric. Over the course of the campaign, she sees full coffers of church officials, she sees how her...

It's kind of hard to say. The way I envision it, the "meat" of the game, the thing the game is taken from the shelf for is combat and realistically, player goals are interchangeable. If the player wanted something else, say, become rich, the end result wouldn't be that much different, just...

Idk, in a reality I live in, roleplaying was separately invented at least once with ERP and other chat-based forms of roleplaying. ...and also Yoko Ono's Grapefruit predates dnd by a decade. Unless you are willing to argue that this is not a roleplaying game.

In my experience, using VTT for PbtA games is quite rare because, like, what would you need a VTT for? Any app that allows for a voicecall is more than enough.

As someone who plays plenty of videogames.... No? Even in the same fantasy genre, D&D-isms are very rare. What "ubiquitous sacred cows" are you thinking about?

Can someone explain to me, what is being discussed in the last dozen pages and how does it relate to neotrad design?

I don't want to derail this conversation, but: I'm lazily working on a game that from what I've gathered about what neo-trad is, more or less falls into what neo-trad describes. There are two distinct "modes", "phases", whatever, of play: there are scenes where PCs are chilling on their base...

Mages: the Ascension for all the innumerable issues Storyteller system has, but, most importantly, completely unplayable setting that has so much stuff going on that I have no goddamn clue how to make it work even after fifteen years of regularly trying.

I like challenging games and the bulk if not entirety of my TTRPG-related design work this year was dedicated to making games that involve a test of skill. Swashbuckling! revolves around testing players' and GM's ability to improvise witty insults on the spot, and in Inner Sanctum whoever is...

This was me when I ran PF1 as part of a challenge. I kept second-guessing myself: "is this rule actually from pathfinder, or 3E, or 3.5e or 5.e or was it a houserule?"

I apologize for not reading ten-odd pages of discussion, but anyway. re: Writer's room As much as I like writer's room, the main reason I love PbtA in general and Apocalypse World specifically as much as I do is because you don't need writer's room there. You can and should think like the...

I find the notion that the character doesn't know whether they are willing to follow up on their threat before said threat is made pretty silly.

It was intended as a way to "solve" the challenge with security codes. but I probably should've emphasized it more clearly And I realized too late that Lenin being a mushroom-radiowave hybrid is way too obscure of a reference. @Iron Sky this was a nice match! I really liked wall-breaking...

Speaking of burgers, pineapple burgers taste sooo good, and works really well with hot peppers First, pineapple burns your mouth with acid, and then you basically apply jalapenos to the wound, it's awesome

I would argue GM being just one person has a distinct advantage in centralized control, because they can make plans and deliberately create a favorable situation for unit A with unit B without revealing any of it out loud. I've played a lot of paired Warhammer 40k tournaments where two people...

shoot I forgot to include the ingredients, see the next post

I think the link leads to a wrong URL

As someone who has design as their main hobby and TTRPGs as a secondary one, I both agree and I don't. Yes, everyone can make games, but I feel like you either a making a game or playing one. Design requires iteration, and it's hard to iterate in an ongoing game, and if everyone is there to...