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I love Torchbearer in all its iterations, but Luke and Thor aren't above overcomplication in places.

No, there's no excuses here, you are a HUGE party pooper sir. A pooper of parties, and you should feel bad. :)

I think that there is an ongoing issue in how people interpret and talk about RPGs that hits on this very issue - the extent to which it's possible or even desirable for an RPG to simulate in any detailed way the thing it trying to represent in play. I think in the case of mysteries and police...

Can you be more specific about what you want these questions to produce? I ask because some game use the background questions to help build out implied setting and others are strictly for PC background. In terms of questions leading to bonds between players are looking for something that's...

I'd be lying if I said that hadn't occurred to me, but it's not actually that close to the thing we shall not name.

Swarm of Butterflies.

I wasn't sure where to post this, but since I mostly design SD books I'll post it here. I'm working on a new logo for D-77 Games. I wanted something cleaner than the one I'm using currently. So far these are the three leading candidates:

Very few people use the beautiful and magnificently designed Inspiration rules for 5E. Degenerate play!

This is why all my designs use 13 or 14pt easy-to-read body font. It won't solve everyone's issues in terms of reading dead tree copies at the table, but it does help a lot. I don't find it cramps my style too much in terms of design, but it certainly doesn't minimize page count. That said, in...

I think that what I'm trying to identify with the phrase 'conceptual horizon' is very much involved, at least generally in how people read and interpret RPGs. People come to a new RPG book with all manner of previous experience and that experience informs their reading of the text. It is regular...

Faintly and fuzzily, at best, which is why it's an unsatisfying account of how the game actually works (or doesn't). I'm not trying to be a pedant here, I can see we have some things in common. The crux of the matter is the extent to which a predetermined solution changes, or improves, or in...

If I have any thoughts worth posting I'll certainly share them. (y) Perhaps! People using their best tools to plug gaps is fine for some value of fine regardless of which tool we're talking about. I doubt that Moldvay basic will be my choice though given my familiarity with the rest of the Into...

That's not a mechanic my friend, that someone's opinion about how to describe the game. Your 'summary' of what's going on in Brindlewood Bay play is overly facile. Telling me how the dice are rolled doesn't describe how the game is played - not for BBay or for any RPG. The difficulty with...

Yeah, this is what I was getting at. Gamers who are used to rules sets A and B that have features/mechanics X and Y might easily identify a game that doesn't have those features as having gaps. The reality might be that they simply haven't expanded their conceptual horizon far enough to analyze...

I'm not misrepresenting the mechanics at all. I'm disagreeing about whether or not they work as advertised. In fact, my entire participation in this thread started with some pretty significant misrepresentation of the mechanics by someone else. I can see that you know how the dice are rolled...

Yup, I know how the game works. I've played it, run it, and designed for it. I don't want anyone to think I'm being unfriendly, so if I've given that impression, my apologies. That said, I'm in complete agreement with @pemerton on how the game functions.

Im going to have to reread this and look for 'gaps'. That wasn't my impression on my first, admittedly casual, reading. The perception of gaps in rules can just as easily stem from reader expectations and prior context as from any actual gaps. Given that this is pullling a lot of OSR readers...

Finding clues by having the skill in the right place isn't a limited resource though. You don't need a point spend to do that bit. The point spend bits of Gumshoe aren't entirely to my taste either, although I do dearly love Swords of the Serpentine.

It's not about convincing. Everyone can manage that for themselves, for sure. I was just pointing out that the game is quite popular as a low-conflict response to the needlessly negative monikers it was saddled with upstream. I don't think the analysis about the mechanic in those posts was...