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Yeah, for sure. For me, there's a difference between "engagement" and "immersion" as well. I can be fully engaged, having fun, feeling the tension of a scene/combat, enjoying each throw of the dice and reading its results, and be nowhere close to being in an "immersive state."

For me personally, when I'm talking about "immersion," I'm talking about deep immersion --- the type of immersion where the edges of the imagined and real space blur, the thought processes and emotions of the character become co-evident in my own thoughts and feelings, where you can put a real...

See, I used to ascribe to this view. That mechanical interactions outside the view of being "in character" were by their very nature anti-immersive, and therefore to be avoided whenever possible. Now I find this to largely be a straw man. Especially in relation to anything regarding combat...

About a year or year and a half ago, I started a thread similar to this one, decrying that I no longer felt that "immersion" as a goal of play was really a fully viable, tenable activity for roleplaying. None of the experiences I'd had with my own group had ever really remotely brought about...

I was highly skeptical of FFG Star Wars / Genesys upon hearing about it initially. I think a lot of folks in the community decried the "gimmicky" dice. It's also in a liminal space between "trad" and narrative sytems that makes it seem that it's sort of neither, which doesn't appeal to either...

I'll never play the game ever, but that Elmore cover art is straight 🔥🔥🔥🔥

At first glance, the general rundown of action sounds somewhat similar to Genesys / FFG Star Wars, which I'm pretty familiar with. Comparing effect dice in Cortex sounds a lot like reading the Genesys dice pool. I'm most interested in hearing more about chargen. What does Cortex+/Prime do...

I've always wanted to run a "Godfather with swords and spears" campaign, where the point is for the PCs to become the ultimate medieval crime lords. For some reason, never found quite the right system or context to run it.

Mythras or Against the Dark Master were the first that came to mind.

It truly is amazing how much of a difference it makes when you consider "D&D the Product" to be somewhere between 9th and 12th in line of systems you would choose to run or play. I expend more mental energy choosing which cereal I eat in the morning than worrying about what will or will not...

Tier 1-- Anything that A) you're likely to play and B) is going to be used by players, you 100% keep. Tier 2 -- Rules, settings, adventures that you are likely to use for reference, or regularly use for inspiration or adventure planning. Everything else, truthfully, you can live without in...

Ironsworn "wowed" me from first read, through 8-10 sessions of GM-ing. Not one time was I ever disappointed. I honestly kept saying to myself, "At some point, is it ever not going to be awesome? When does the letdown happen?" Hasn't happened yet. I also have to agree with FFG Star Wars. I was...

Absolutely a kid on a bike. Age 10-13, can't tell you how many times I packed up a roll of quarters, biked 3 miles down the hill to the local gas station, because they had a pinball machine and a Double Dragon arcade game. Rode the bike trail along the river, rode up to the local golf course to...

You know I have absolutely zero issue with PbtA / FitD play principles, and in fact am now a strong proponent of them after many years of being the opposite. But I still have to question what it is you're actually saying. When you say, "choices, in play, that say something," what is that...

How soon before your typical FLGS will have it available for direct order through one of the usual distributors?

It's about a half-hour drive from Boulder, but Black and Read in Arvada, CO has TONS and TONS of new and used RPG material. http://www.blackandread.net/site/ 7821 Wadsworth Blvd Arvada, CO 80003 I go there every time I visit my sister who lives in Arvada. Good stuff.

I think I've commented on a thread elsewhere that if RPGs hadn't started from war gaming, they'd likely have started from something along these lines. A parlour game, with cards + dice + other randomizers, with roles and modes of play, with the intent of telling a story or just enjoying the...

Agreed. Unless for some reason Starforged didn't qualify for the 2022 awards (2023 instead?), this is a massive, glaring omission.

@Grendel_Khan --- I need about eighteen more heart emojis for that post. Incredibly, dare I say even beautifully well stated.

I think the big point of your thought is in bold. The biggest hurdle as a GM I had to overcome for Ironsworn was to stop immediately negating the "how" just because I had thought of something ahead of time that would make me say, "Oh no, the players can't do that, that's impossible because I...