Game design discourse in Realis: The Mechanicalogica vs The Narrasoulic

You find yourself in front of a rusted spaceship port - though, on closer inspection, that rust looks an awful lot like old blood, and are those insect legs sticking out from one of the joints? Either way, a slip of paper has been stuck through the seam in the center. It begins: The full PDF for Realis has been released to Kickstarter backers, and it is gorgeous. I am fully, truly, and completely in love with it. Each new tidbit of worldbuilding, all the new classes and moons and NPCs, I feel as though I have been handed a bin of beautiful toys and told to go wild. I've been running several text RPs for my Realis campaign (Realis works stunningly well for text RP, and it allows me to indulge in the same dramatic narrative voice that the rulebook does). One of these RPs was a way to narratively transition a player character from Runner to Panoplis. yes I let my player have a transformer as a ship. everybody say RIP FUSELAGE The Panoplist class is one of my favorites from the full book,…