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I'm a little worried about this. Not because I don't think Sanderson is sane, relatively sensible, or organised or whatever, but for two specific reasons: 1) Sanderson has almost no experience in the industry and this is a huge role. Really close to none - basically none - because the only...

BotW is an insanely impressive game but I think it absolutely falls outside the kind of gameplay described because it's a serious metroidvania with a ton to unlock (a lot of which works in intuitive but still complex ways). Even the short gameplay loop I'd characterise as a lot longer than...

Is it? What do you base this on? Do you mean re: other stuff getting called "romantasy"? ??? I'm not trying to - I'm pointing out that plenty of good works get labelled "romantasy" right now (because the genre is very fashionable) so suggesting the whole thing is "trash" in a broader sense...

Yeah it's one of those ideas which is neat, but can very rapidly wear out its welcome. Two movies playing it for laughs, fun! Dozens of episodes of an anime taking it mostly seriously (as even the ones with comedic-seeming premises do in practice)? Not so great.

Good luck with that, tell us if you find one! I definitely get you there - I love roguelike and soulslike games and heavy stories buuuuuut sometimes you don't want any of those! The only genre I can think of which really features that is Boomer Shooters, but I'm guessing when you say "action...

That's a bit like saying "dark fantasy is awful" or "epic fantasy is awful" or whatever though, because it's such a broad sweeping claim about an extremely diverse genre that it just shows you're basically unfamiliar with the genre. There's certainly a lot of romantasy that is both trashy and...

Yes I'm well aware of it sadly.

Isekai just means portal fantasy essentially (most literal translation is "a different world") and includes reincarnation, planar travel, alternate realities, time travel that actually changes stuff, as well as "trapped in a video game" and so on. It's not inherently bad, it's just like...

Technology limits this a bit, implying electronics or at least mechanical devices. I have a whole bunch of kitchen stuff that's 40+ years old and still in use, but I wouldn't call any of it technology (plates, cutlery, etc.). I think actual technology, it's pretty much going to be the Stanley...

I've played loads of RPGs RAW (certainly no knowing omissions obviously there are known omissions and unknown omissions). I'm surprised that you don't think this happens. Though not as surprised as I was by the title I admit... Will we still be playing 100% un-altered rules 20+ sessions into...

I'd agree with this, though I think one can easily overstate how different that story is for each person. I mean, I don't think that's necessarily true. Because I don't think there's the hard contradiction between player agency and story-like elements in all cases, especially because, as you...

I haven't run it but one of the main reasons I haven't is that I felt like the core rulebook was extremely bare-bones (even as someone familiar with 40K since literally the 1980s). Like, it technically provides you with what you need to start a campaign, but it didn't feel to me like it gave you...

I built a Mass Effect RPG from Cortex - it's an excellent system - quite abstract in some ways but the output felt really on-point, and the players seemed to grasp it instantly (faster than I expected - it's always interesting when that happens). We didn't keep playing past a few sessions...

Maybe, but if you're making sweeping statements about a game and how it went and referring to how others experience the game (which that post did, explicitly), you should definitely say if you were playing a quickstart rather than the full rules.

Keeping it short because off-topic - I think it's always been a major issue but the way the press operated before 24 hour news and the internet, it was generally in their interests to play it off as "funny eccentricity" or euphemise the hell out of it - i.e. "He's a ladies man" (meaning "he...

Yes this. I'm not going to name names but there are a couple of FitD and PtbA games that have really cool concepts and a some good rules but are just also missing rules for stuff that naturally comes up a ton due to the setting/themes, and it's particularly problematic because of the...

I feel like the Marvel and DC takes on this kind of thing have been really, really bad and frankly lazy examples of what you could do here, because pretty much all of them relentlessly and I do mean utterly relentlessly focus on making the heroes/villains very similar to what they are in the...

Yeah exactly. There are so many games which have complexity in completely the wrong places. Often it's not even subjectively wrong as in "I don't want complexity there", it's kind of objectively wrong because the game says "This game is about X" but then they've put a ton of complexity into Y...

Not all dungeon crawlers are alike, though - this one has a lot of NSR-specific conceits. Like, if you baseline say dungeon crawler to anyone but the most NSR/OSR-pilled serious TTRPGhead, they think of something where a party of HEROES (not merely "gimme the money" merc/adventurers) goes into a...

That would totally work, and indeed there are dungeon crawling videogames which have some similar mechanics, but they explicitly called out that they weren't using that approach so I suspect they won't. Which is hard-incompatible with "extract with the treasure whilst avoiding combat" and the...