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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 7922585" data-attributes="member: 6993955">The only reason I need to post back and forth about TTRPG design theory is that I enjoy it. I'm not here with a set of preconceived theoretical apparati that I want to sell, or an agenda of any kind. I like hearing other people's points of view and what knobs dials and buttons they think are important.  Even people who's opinions I strongly disagree with are helping me shape what I think and decide what I think is important.Some of the best games are ones shaped by a strong personal or small group vision anyway. I enjoy D&D, and I play it regularly, but if I didn't have 30+ years of love for the game I really don't think I'd pull it off a shelf and start playing it now. The games I've read more recently that have really grabbed me by the balls and shouted PLAY ME! have been different games, stuff like BitD, the Dresden RPG, Burning Wheel and Houses of the Blooded. Those games have a much firmer theoretical underpinning, and I like being able to parse that out and figure out what makes them tick, and which ticks I like enough to file away for my own bag of tricks.</blockquote>