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Who Broke the In-Game Economy?
Why are RPG economies so bad? Why are shopkeepers so mercenary, why are the prices so crazy, and why do you always end up a gazillionaire by the end of the game? Can't we just have a sensible balanced economy?
In Defense of Crunch
Crunch-mode game development isn't good, but sometimes it happens for good reasons.
Ludonarrative Dissonance
What is this silly word, why did some people get so irritated by it, and why did it fall out of use?
The No Politics Rule
Here are 6 reasons why I forbid political discussions on this site. #4 will amaze you. Or not.
The Brilliance of Mass Effect
What is "Domino Worldbuilding" and how did it help to make Mass Effect one of the most interesting settings in modern RPGs?
Large numbers of names can be hard to keep track of, even if the game is running well and the players are engaged.
We almost invaded the wrong country once in an exalted game, because I got mixed up which nation was being occupied and which was the occupier. The GM didn’t pick up on it, because she felt that attacking the occupier directly was just as reasonable for us to do as trying to liberate the occupee.
Aragorn really got the lion’s share of memorable lines, didn’t he?
Keeping track of a large number of names can be challenging, even when the game is going smoothly and everyone is engaged. Once, during an exalted game, we nearly invaded the wrong country because I confused the nation under occupation with the one occupying it. Geometry Dash the GM didn’t notice the mix-up, as she considered attacking the occupying nation directly just as reasonable as trying to free the occupied one