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@Criminalsimpson El Oso Rulo.

Argentina hate is so bad. Like sure, let's all rag on the third world country being hacked apart by an evil libertarian ghoul after decades of being sucked dry by IMF exploitation and inflation. That seems like it's in good taste! Let's demonize those people! Get a life.

@its_hipolita @StrigaRosa @Chrome_Viper 30 min is very generous.

@StrigaRosa @Chrome_Viper How many BITD tables do you think actually do the score procedure as written (type of plan + detail then engage, use flashbacks as needed to fill in the details Soderbergh style) vs spend 30 minutes of real world time meticulously planning a heist

I think I may find the dissonance with Blades in the Dark, the game it plays as and the game people play. It screams "This is the Al Swearengen TTRPG" as what it wants to be about, but the mechanics and culture around it are too loud.

the purpose of education isn't to instill facts but to inspire that sense of discovery, exposing us to the best that has been filmed, painted and written, so that we're motivated to teach ourselves. the person who loves can never come to harm.

@MonkipiQuinn That frustration led to a design philosophy that values the emergent over the prescriptive, & the term that got associated with prescription was "story". Interestingly! I think that what we used to describe as "story" was replaced with "plot", as in: "We derailed the DMs plot."

@MonkipiQuinn WoD was a prime example of this, with a series of fictional constructs, some of which were literal prewritten stories, that promised a game experience that was incompatible with the game's mechanics. +

*suddenly getting really mad about 2018 era TTRPG theory discussions*: I just find the argumentation that games have narrative, but don't have stories to be reductive, pedantic, and absurd

And if I said the rise of "no sex scenes in movies", "dark romance novels are wrong", and "art should be wholesome" sentiments on this site should've been recognised as a sign fascism was gaining a foothold in parts of Gen Z...

Going through the backer list putting stuff neatly for the warehouse puts me back in that zone of feeling good because, seemingly, a lot of people like my games. A lot of people are going to get that Zephyr box and flip out.

@ComradeIshmael Kevin Crawford built his career on it.

What's wild to me about the whole slew of "games made in one sitting" and "1-page games" and the whole jam culture is that they promise the idea of "not making an effort" and "avoiding hard stuff" but at the same time they are so integrated to the anxiety-inducing dynamics of...

@JazzElves @FedericoS15190 Numenera is "what if a D&D 3E gorgnard had skimmed over FATE once"?

@FedericoS15190 The frustrating part is that there's 2 good ideas in there married in the most awkward, clunky kludge way "Sometimes things go unexpectedly weird for no forewarned reason" and "you get XP when things go wrong, not smoothly" are both good things for a game to communicate! But.

Man this is awkward

@FedericoS15190 @JazzElves ☝️

@JazzElves The last bit, of "player cannot refuse if they have no XP" is open season for GMs to justify being assholes. Moreso considering that XP seems to be directly tied to achievements (or GM intrusions), there is no "casual" way to earn it (no "XP for finishing a session" kinda thing).

@FedericoS15190 Cypher/Numenera has probably the worst XP system I've read.