I wouldn't call those stages, I'd call them preferences. I prefer the first. The second I find boring, and the third I find "playing the system rather than the game", which is likewise not to my tastes - that's the domain of WoTC D&D, Hero & GURPs players.
I should by honour accede the caveat that I do not play OSR games OR videogames, the former out of preference and the latter; frankly I just don't have time for anyone else's imagination at the moment because I'm heavily engaged in communicating mine through prose. I spend periods of my life...
Nah. Practically speaking, a Hero is going to use most Power Stunts maybe once every 3-5 sessions at best. As the learning process in the game requires a Red Phase result the first attempt, a Yellow the second attempt and then a green for 3 consecutive attempts before a Hero no longer needs to...
I run horror. The kind that's horrifying to people who were watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre in Kindergarten. The kind that would make Kult get up and say "whoa, that's a bit bleak there mate".
But I also run Bronze Age Supers and Miyazaki-inspired Pastoral Fantasy (shrug)
I am vast and...
Phaserip is almost complete. I wanted to have it finished for my birthday on Feb 27th, but I ran into an issue that's required some restructuring. Everything is written and editted now though, it's all just layout concerns.
I think you're completely off base on that one. That principle led to a trickle of published fantasy heartbreakers.
It was the OGL specifically that led to the thousand OSR clones, which is a contract where you give up rights in exchange for WotC allowing you to do what you could legally do...
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