You guys are all just playing wrong.
Ralph Mazza The only immersion most gamers need is a hot bath.
"I need you to come pick me up, I can't find my keys." "Damnit system."
But Mark Delsing the best systems should be transparent to avoid breaking immersion.
"System that gets out of the way" is, AFAIK, '90s-speak for a host of bullshit RPG design and practice that…
When I say something like "I want the system to get out of my way," I mean that I don't…
"Maybe because moves are more densely designed than, say, a pass/fail roll-under thing. Lots more room for the kind of…
I like a system that gets right in my way and asks me for money, with a little lunchtime martini…
When I hear "the system gets out of the way" I think, "good, it can stay out of mine, too."
I think that when people say they want the game to get out of the way, what they often mean…
