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I think I'd rather have someone wish me a metaphoric coronary than suffer a literal one.

I think you meant hyperbole (exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally) rather than metaphor (a figure of speech that implicitly compares two unrelated things, typically by stating that one thing is another). If it was a metaphor then you would be saying have a coronary...

I hadn't even noticed that. What a bizarre choice to include that on the mini.

So the release date is looking more like June due to shipping issues.

Also gave lots of new adventure writers their break, and something to publish short adventures without the backing of some hardback book.

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Why Oca?

So you don't think things are put in that sandbox because they have relevance?

While I agree you can have red herrings, I think often in RPGs they tend to fall flat, unless they can discover it is an actual deliberate misdirect by the villain. If it just is a misleading clue that leads to a dead end, players can feel like they have just wasted time.

Even if it doesn't assume one it will create one.

I think the GM certainly can pre-determine some elements that will matter, it the villain used a particular type of poison to kill the victim, then either the players discover traces of it via their investigations or not. It will matter to their later investigations if they do or do not find...

Counter to that there is the principle of Chekhov's gun, that states that every element in a story must be necessary, and irrelevant elements should be removed. For example, if a writer features a gun in a story, there must be a reason for it, such as it being fired some time later in the plot...

Not associated, but how did no one do this before? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jaygummyquest/gummyquest-delicious-fantasy-gummies

Yeah if a significant number of people in this world where trolls are only folklore and not real, know that trolls need to be killed with fire, can you imagine how many would know in a world where trolls are a real risk if you travel too far from civilization. This is the sort of stuff most...

Okay the first response to the OP that seemed to get a lot of love, and was about players not knowing the rules leading to better games, my mistake. Not sure it is a dispute, I think in my earliest response in this thread I said I've certainly had enjoyable games where the players were unaware...

No it is just assuming the position that the player doesn't know the rules, and the DM doesn't share them just adjudicates them, because they believe the best game is when the player doesn't know them. Which was the original point of the thread.

So in this version the DM hasn't learned the rules either?

Well obviously if there are less rules to learn, then not knowing rules you are missing out on less of them. Also I would say the closer the game is to a shared reality the easier it is to get away from having rules knowledge and just be a character inhabiting that world. So Call of Cthulhu...

But until you know the rules exist you might not even know there is a conversation to be had.