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    Making plate armor useless.

    It's a tricky thing to balance. In game terms, historical plate armor was pretty overpowered.
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    [Essay] Why Metaplot is important to the World of Darkness (and other settings)

    Metaplot is one of many reasons I drifted away from using anything published and started making my own settings. I've never seen a metaplot or progressing installment that went in a way that I felt bettered the setting, and I don't care for people I don't know and never will know telling me how...
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    How to make some systems more cinematic?

    Forego social skill rolls for pure roleplay.
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    Broos, Beastmen, Goatmen etc

    They're more refreshing to see than orcs, and despite being a much older concept, they feel more unique to me. Their human traits also give them an "us, but monsters" angle that can be interesting thematically. You don't really get that with orcs or goblins where they're entirely non-human races.
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    Shadow of the Weird Wizard

    Given its rocky and delayed development, I'm not surprised if he feels burnt out or overwhelmed. I'd be drinking too if this was who was interviewing me.
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    Am I doing my players a disservice by not doing voices?

    Agreed. Voices are good if you can do them well, but they're not mandatory and are usually a detriment if you're not good at them. As long as your NPCs have interesting dialogue and you try to talk in 1st person, you're fine. A GM doing no voice at all with well-spoken dialogue is much better...
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    Shadow of the Weird Wizard

    I like Demon Lord's rules, especially paths over classes, but the edginess gets on my nerves fast. Even if you don't use the Rul setting, there's a lot of that stuff in monster descriptions, paths, spells, etc. Weird Wizard doesn't interest me either, because despite dulling the edgy content, it...
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    Tired of new settings?

    I think an obsession with being original is just as bad as being painfully bland. Not everything needs to be some new spin, take, or subversion on something else, and not everything needs to be crazy and wild to make for a good world, you just need to try making something worth a damn out of it...
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    Tired of new settings?

    I'm a lot pickier than I used to be. I don't even like older settings anymore, or premade settings in general. "If you want it done right, do it yourself" has become my mindset the last couple years. I'd rather decide the confines of my own world than work within another's.
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    BRP The Edition Wars To End All Wars

    I've found Cthulhu Dark Ages blended with Pulp Cthulhu works really well for grittier fantasy games. Tried Mythras and RQ and both were too crunchy or awkward for my tastes. Haven't played BRP Core yet, but so far I'd say CoC is the best overall framework for running games that are generally...
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    Heuristic Approach to RPG Design Philosophy

    8. Aesthetic and minimalist design I miss the old style of RPG books with elaborate art. Rule descriptions and character sheets should be minimalistic, but the books themselves should be fun to read as well as play, IMO.
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    Was Role-Playing an Intended or Emergent Property of D&D?

    The "O.G." era of D&D was long before my time, but from the players around that time I've talked with, it always seemed to be popular. The games required your imagination and inevitably roleplaying helped encourage that, plus the fact that for most people if you were just playing to roll dice...
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    Mod+ Daniel Fox and his character/business practices

    I don't remember how I ended up with Zweihander on DTRPG, but I never enjoyed it in the few games I played. One of the dullest systems I've ever experienced. As for Fox himself, he was demanding games be woke before wokeness was even the current fad. I think he was loud and aggressive about...
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    The Immutable, Ironclad Laws of Roleplay Gaming

    47. Expect your players to miss or ignore a majority of what you prep.
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    Is there a system you enjoyed running in the past but since become nauseous to think about?

    If you Fight Back, you have to beat your target's success level. Ties mean the attacker wins, better success means they fail and you hit them, and the attacker can fail and you can succeed and do damage instead, but Fight Back attacks can't Impale (CoC's equivalent of a crit). If you dodge, you...
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    PbtA fans' list of the worst PbtA games.

    Isn't that Thirsty Lesbians game PbtA?
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    Is there a system you enjoyed running in the past but since become nauseous to think about?

    I've had success taking Call of Cthulhu, stripping the Cthulhu elements, and using it as a revised lightweight BRP. It's just better in every way than BRP Classic, I've found. Mythras/RQ are too crunchy for my tastes though.
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    What obsession do you include in almost all of the games you run?

    General gun and weapon porn. You don't just have a polearm, you have a billhook, pike, or halberd. You don't have a .45 pistol, you have a Colt M1911, a USP45, etc. etc. I feel like the extra detail helps any system's combat feel more engrossing.
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    Is there a system you enjoyed running in the past but since become nauseous to think about?

    I used to be really into WFRP 2e (my username was even supposed to be Warhammery), but over the years I got increasingly disinterested in it. Now, I find WFRP and the Warhammer setting itself irritating, unenjoyable, and overrated.
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