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This assumes that's what they think they're doing. The problem there can be that you've got enough of them that what you're actually deciding is to pull the plug on gaming yourself. As I said that isn't a trivial decide for a lot of people. It took me literally years to decide to do so with...

I think you have a distinction that isn't held up in the wild. People who really want to game will put up with a lot of annoyance for quite some time before they toss in the towl, and this is made even more true if they're playing with people they consider friends. That doesn't mean they...

As I've noted before, while there's some variance here even in D&D, there's been traditionally some pretty active hostility among some participants to the idea that player can even introduce elements to the setting in downtime, and more against them doing so on the fly. This isn't even...

The only thing that will kill this is if you have players who don't want to engage with the situation at all, and that's a problem in virtually any sort of RPG of any style (yes, even sandboxes; if the players don't want to engage with anything, nothing happens). You presumably have buy-in in...

I think the problem is the latter is not actually true for a lot of people for various reasons. I've seen a number of people who flat out won't play online (as in, playing face to face trumps any other concern) and at that point they're going to keep chasing whatever face to face game they can...

Certainly. I'm just noting you can easily have one or more examples in a group of people who are working at cross-purposes because, in practice, its "the only game in town" and they want a particular mix of experience that's going to be hard to find no matter what they do, so they keep trying...

Depends on whether its the tactical element or other parts that have you burned out.

I'm rather bothered by the capped/cancel out combo (that's one of the things I dislike about Advantage/Disadvantage) but it may be that things normally covered by that are handled by other effects in DS.

Yeah, some people in the "no gaming is better than bad gaming" can't understand people who want to game enough they'll deal with a lot of problems to try and get a game in, and sometimes that's what's required.

SotDL Banes/Boons add or subtract a D6 from the D20 roll involved; they don't stack, exactly, but they can cancel each other, and if you get multiples on one end you roll all and take the highest D6, so there's some cumulative effect, but its diminishing returns (the most you ever need to roll...

I don't remember how you feel about Savage Worlds, but it comes to mind. Do you want fantasy or something else?

I ran an XCOM campaign with Savage Worlds some years ago. The base management was admittedly an essentially added-on subsystem, and to represent some elements of the game I did a four sets of custom Edge chains, but it otherwise worked pretty well. If I hadn't gotten obsessed with trying to...

Yeah, but thread drift is one of those things that tends to have kind of broad impact in what occurs on fora. Ironically in a way that actually relates to this thread topic in kind of a roundabout way.

I'm apparently a source of mixed interest and frustration to my cardiologists. Edit: Just to make it clear that's not as bad as it sounds, its more that I have occasional outbreaks of atrial fibrillation, but it doesn't seem to otherwise impact my health, nor have, well, any cause that any...

I agree with the first, but having the capacity to shut opponets temporarily out of actions can be very tactical in a "defeat in detail" sort of way.

Good design from a game engagement POV. The biggest negative reactions I see in 13th Age are to Stun (which pretty much shuts you out until it goes away), Confusion (which makes your actions active hazards to the other PCs) and Weaken (which allows you to take actions but seriously messes them...

Well, that gets into the whole issue that I think lumping process sim and genre emulation together was badly aligned from the start.

How sensetive people are to threaddrift--varies considerably.

I expect @TwoSix was saying that if you thought their comment was inappropriate thread drift, you could report them.

I'm not sure, from my understanding of GNS principals (which is admittedly not super-extensive since I think its definitions get progressively more borked once you get outside narr) that's a sentiment that would sit well with any of the three wings; its certainly not something that serves...