Escaping the Kill, Loot, Repeat Grind

Relentlessly pursuing increasingly better gear just to kill increasingly bigger bad guys is far from the only way to play RPGs. A panel of veteran game designers with hundreds of published games to their names discuss alternate reward paths and dynamics.

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