billd91
Not your screen monkey (he/him) 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️⚧️
How do FATE, Gumshoe and Cortex+ overcome this repetition in a way that D&D can't?
I think for the most part they don’t any more than D&D does. You can have just as much variation and avoid repetition in D&D as you can in Call of Cthulhu, Traveller, Champions, or any other non-leveling game as long as you choose to play it that way.
The trouble is, games with more discrete level-ups like D&D and lots of computer RPGs (and even time waster tablet and social media games like Candy Crush) have really made the feedback loop very addictive, and so you get players who chafe at relatively static characters.