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Unironically yes, maybe not make the BBEG everyone's parent/family since some players just want their parent/family as just...

INCORRECT! The world I present to the players are molded to fit the characters and players, I don't suddenly have their homes get...

Do I actually present a neutral game world or do I give the appearance of neutrality?

And it should be 3 arrows at level 5 at the very latest

I don't want it to be high level. Make it level 5 at most.

The art has not been created however, the sites and destination is clear but the journey hasn't been taken.

Rather that the land is full of things they can choose to struggle against. I offer possibilities and an environment. They decide what...

This blogpost did a great job in putting into digital paper some of the 'techniques' and 'style' of neotrad, also shows off a less...

Just found out its been released digitally and that Paradox is slowly killing off CoD foolishly. As such I will do no further business...

Terrible but expected news. A great shame since CofD was my second 'big' TTRPG fandom I played in, it did a lot to shape my tastes.

Should have said trad games instead of design ethos specifically--Vampire is a Trad game and is played very Trad-like with its...

As this has strayed away a bit from discussing Neotrad specifically, let me say this; I consider Simulationism to be something I'm...

I can't see everything in this conversation; however, I feel like this thread that is supposed to be about Neo-Trad Games! has been...

I also agree with this but I have no negative feelings towards it. Basically any kind of TTRPG theorisation that reaches even a sliver...

Agreed. Sometimes in discussion we forget that real-world implementation is not always going to follow the letter of the law, and that...