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I was thinking just the general travel encounter table, or the teahouse encounter table. Granted, the entanglements table is pretty much all negative things designed to complicated the crew's life, while your encounter tables are mixed, but it's the same principle.

True, but (in the English version) Jen states that poison goes straight to the heart, implying a fast-acting lethality, and that the antidote takes time to prepare. It's not quite clear how much time passes, but it's certainly long enough that it seems to me Li Mu Bai would have Awakening the...

Obviously, the mechanical expressions differ, and there's divergence like BitD's score-downtime loop being far more procedural than your approach, but I see so much overlap. BitD encourages GMs to provide opportunities (i.e. hooks), but also follow the players' lead, no different from your...

Full disclosure: probably about 90% of my time at the table has been as a player, but I've always read the books to the point that I was often as knowledgeable of the rules, if not more so, than the GM. I have never argued, but have questioned adjudication. But that isn't really what I was...

The fatal flaw of consulting players is the overwhelming majority don't RTFM to understand the GM's position.

Given your complaint about people pigeon-holing your approach, I think it would be wise to not lump Bedrock based on his advocacy of Robert's approach, especially since he's clearly stated that they diverge. So, I picked up @Bedrockgames ' Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades a few years ago, which...

I've been giving some thought to a signature ability for the Wudang techniques, but first, some research. The Wudang in question is the fictional Wudang school/sect located in the Wudang Mountains, based on the real Taoist temples there, which are associated with neidan or internal alchemy. In...

One of the things that came up in this thread before I joined, that I find contentious is the conflation of GM-created/authored with GM-driven. A notable example was you holding up BitD as a player-driven sandbox (and, to be clear, I agree it is), even though RAW the GM is the one deciding and...

And there's me collecting and playing Warhammer since the 90s, while also hamming it up in Red Dragon Inn.

The narrativist-leaning folk might bristle at this, but one is learning to GM. Think of it like stabilising wheels on a bike: useful when first starting to learn to ride (or just too lazy to maintain balance), but they're going to be restrictive, even detrimental for some things you might want...

This was exactly my problem with Cortex Prime. I got into RPGs properly after MHR and Firefly had been pulled so I only had the Prime handbook to go off, and none of those examples were particularly helpful or inspiring. As a newcomer, I would have been better served if the 3 examples were, say...

Personally, I think Ron Edwards is to RPGs what Freud was psychology - undoubtedly influential with some incredibly flawed notions - and GNS theory has been incredibly damaging to RPG discourse due to misrepresenting any style outside of Narrativism, and resulting in naughty word like this. Putting...

I have observations on this, but I'm not sure they'd be received well enough for a constructive discussion.

Personally, I try to approach a given game in the spirit it was intended, even if it's not quite my thing. Not everyone does, and that certainly results in a messy game, but certain Blades fans holding John Harper up as the RPG messiah and refusing to accept that their game isn't universally...

There's that reactionary pushback I was talking about. The irony is that I, the one who made that comment, not only don't think everyone should be playing Narrativist games, I don't even like them myself. Until this comment, I've deliberate tried to avoid stating my preferences precisely...

A combination of factors. 1. Its design, particularly levels and CR, breeds a certain assumption of balance (though we all know action economy trumps CR) that I feel goes against the nature of a sandbox. Not that one is beholden to balanced encounters, of course, but there are expectations to...

You're going to need more straw for stability. Who on earth is going to put poo on such a table?!

I'll cop to being such a person. I hate rule of cool because I find it leads to a game that lacks consistency in tone and adjudication, and inevitably gets increasingly more gonzo as players try to play the GM. I have a friend who prioritises rule of cool above all else, and that's exactly what...

I'd say some systems are better at facilitating a sandbox than others, but it's a tool that you still need to know how to use. Personally, I'd never run a sandbox with 5e just because of certain assumptions built into it's design (that's not to say it can't be used for a sandbox, of course), but...

I think there's a case of some subsect of certain games/styles/movements being dogmatic about their preferences, and that then breeds a reactionary pushback because it's ultimately subjective preferences. I think there's a small handful of fundamentals that are applicable across the board - but...