Recent content by TristramEvans

The part where some people consider that optional and others don't seems to be the only argument going on that I can see.

That's putting to words some thoughts that I couldn't. I think about the GM/Player relationship in RPGs, and it's very much like the GM is the substitute for the senses of the player characters who are otherwise blind, deaf, and whatever not-having-olfactory is called. They are brains in jars...

I opt for shaming them. Lady Gaga's milkshakes don't bring any boys to her yard.

I still am trying to wrap my head around the point of fudging at all, it just...doesn't logic to me, so I dunno, that was a shot in the dark, but I don't know enough about games where "illusionism is on the table" so to speak to really offer more than a hypothesis.

It seems to me what we might be talking about, in a wider sense, is illusionism. And illusionism only works if the players don't know they are being illusioned I guess?

ah, fair enough, I misread.

Calvinball?

Well, no idea what "pure" means in this context, but the weather has nothing to do with player agency whatsoever (Y'know, unless they are playing Storm from the X-Men or something).

casting my vote for changing the term used from fudging to "dicefishing"

Indeed, I still already know how I like to game, and I judge any system based on how well it facilitates my playstyle, rather than adapting myself to the author's proffered approach.

Besides D&D, who are the Big Boys these days? White Wolf seems to have completely fallen off my radar, Chaosium seems to be chugging along, but I would assume CoC and Pendragon both count as "niche games", (the latter being quite a bit more niche than the former). the majority of RPGs I get...

What it looks like is everyone ignored Endless's blue text. Not cool guys.

Yeah, it's an entirely visual (with audio) experience for me, but that's just how my brain always is. It's impressionistic, and as amorphous of a dream, but capable of startlingly high definition when emotional reactions get involved. I became aware that some folks don't have a visual...