Recent content by Reynard

Not really. For me is is the mere fact of a communal discussion about the outcome of some narrative role that bugs me. I don't mind individual players have authority in the moment. I love Fate, and one of its major mechanics of play is players creating real, tangible narrative outcomes with...

Dungeon Crawler Carl: This book would be MUCH better with out the LitRPG nonsense. I don't mean not having the premise. that's cool. But holy crap is the "explaining the rules" stuff absolutely boring.

These are both good explanations, but one thing i think should be made clear is that ANYTHING can be a clock -- it is a way of determining when the next thing happens, even if that next thing is "the fight is over." Obviously, the most basic example is "the boss's HP is a clock" but literally in...

I sense some dismissiveness, which I think is unwarranted. I feel that it is totally reasonable to be put off by the idea that we stop the narrative to sit around and decide what would be cooler to have happen next. Not all narrative games do that, of course, but some do, and they aren't fun...

I am not sure why you interpret people offering the opinions as "unfair pushback." No one was trying to silence you.

This might be too pedantic, but GM-less games aren't really GM-less. Rather, they redistribute the GMing duties among the participants (and the system). Traditional GMing activities like framing the scene still happen, it is just that no single player takes on that responsibility.

I don't disagree, but I think the degree to which that conversation shapes the fiction compared to the systems shaping the fiction varies between games, tables and individual gamers. For example, it is totally valid to play a very crunchy game in a very constrained fiction-- for example...

While I can often find Grant Morrison hit or miss, his book "SuperGods" is a pretty good treatise on the place of superheroes in our modern mythology and culture. It is also a mind bending autobiography, but that's Morrison for you.

I don't think you are wrong necessarily, but I think it presupposes that the main point is the Roleplaying, and the Game is secondary. I don't think that is necessarily true. I tend to think of the Game part being as important if not more important than the Roleplaying part. (Swap in...

Well, I finally did it. I got the fist volume of Dungeon Crawler Carl on audio. I started it last night on the way home from work (about an hour and a half) and I am not sure yet whether it was a good decision. I will say this: the voice work by the narrator is top notch.

I think folks tend to interpret statement in the most extreme way, instead of just taking them as the statements of preference they are. I don't think we, as a discussion community, need to demand a disclaimer on every post. We know that the vast majority of the time, people are coming at any...

No, no, no. People who don't play the RPGs I like aren't roleplaying at all.

I think people often forget that superhero stories are literally both the oldest kind of story and the most common and impactful. Gilgamesh. Greek myth. Beowulf. Round table. These are ALL supers stories.

It is cool that you have a playstyle you prefer and have found games that match that playstyle. Denigrating other playstyles is not as cool. Most of them, I think. I play D&D, Daggerheart, Shadowdark and Savage Worlds a lot, and those use points or other limited resources to power abilties.

Alright. Fine. I'll listen to it before I complain any more. Jeez.