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As should be readily apparent from your time spent on the internet, not every human being is able to properly intuit other people's intent when dealing with the written word. People have a tendency to read their own assumptions as to what a person is really trying to say, and that's only...

On the plus side, like 70 to 80% of those accounts are almost guaranteed to be bots and/or Russian trolls.

You know "things I don't like and/or understand."

I am the HUGEST fan of Peter Chiykowski's Story Engine Decks. https://storyenginedeck.com/ At the cheaper end of the spectrum are Rory's Story Cubes. If you've got a copy of Dixit or Mysterium, those cards are spectacular for brainstorming. The recently reprinted Everway came with an...

It's too bad there isn't a decent heist RPG out there that figured out a good mechanical way to do an end run around all the unnecessary layers of planning, and fall back planning, and contingency planning.

It's weird cause I'm really not a fan of the lit rpg scene, but if you get a chance to listen to the Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobooks, they are quite possibly the best produced audio books I have ever listened to. DOUBLY so when you realize that all of the voices you're listening to are one...

I'm not talking about a begrudgingly hand waived acceptance of what the abstractions might look like in real life if you squint real hard. I'm talking about an in-game reality where people in the world know that you have an 18 strength and 142 hit points. They know that a goblin only has a CR...

I have to say, reading how Rich Burlew was running his game in the late 90s, where character stats and levels and hitpoints and spell slots were just open, understood, concrete facets of daily life that characters just talked about without having to hem and haw over anachronisms and meta game...

For me it really depends on the game being played, but in general, I tend to lean towards games with static difficulties.

This walkthrough is a little outdated, Google seems to be updating their permissions systems once a week. But, aside from that, this gives a good rundown of what that spreadsheet playspace does and how it works.

You also have the added benefit of (with a little bit of work) programming a character builder straight into the character sheet.

Belatedly, and as someone who has been using Google Sheets as their primary creative tool since the pandemic, a spreadsheet doesn't have to look like a spreadsheet.

? It's been a long time since I played, but does Burning Wheel NOT have a partial success mechanic? Both MG and Torchbearer have them, and I'd be kinda shocked if they adopted that all on their own.

Even here, I frequently see people who are new to the game(s) miss the fact that even "failure" frequently only means "you succeed with a minor setback." You were trying to win an argument at the tavern, and though you eventually WON, it's now well past 9 bells and you're Afraid because the...

I'm coming into this conversation HELLISHLY late, but I always feel the need to right this assumption when I see it in the wild. The Conflict system isn't a combat system, it's for any dramatic exchange. I'd say that on average we have about one conflict every two sessions, and maybe MAYBE...

It's not a narrative conceit. He's smart enough to have thought that far ahead. Because there is no way to accurately simulate that, they provide a mechanical shortcut that allows a normal human being who is pretending to be Batman to get to the same end result. It's simulating the result...

I don't think I've ever seen someone Gadsden Flag an rpg mechanic before...

Egads. I know that there are almost 40 more pages of discussion ahead of this that I still need to chew through, but this reminded me of the first metacurrency I remember seeing. In some early 90s version of what was probably DC Heroes, one of Batman's super powers was that the player could...

From my vantage point, at least when I first saw it being used, it was a resource that the player spent, that the character had no knowledge or understanding of, that typically affected the game in a way that was outside the realm of what the character would realistically be able to affect...