the influence of the ideas of Improv Acting on the play culture started dulling the notion that the actual rules and procedures of games are things worth caring about.
Can you unpack that at all? I was nodding along to most of your post, but this point puzzled me. I thought "System Matters" was one of the old Forge concepts that did manage to survive?
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