Recent content by Micah Sweet

So, just TTRPGs then? No other kinds of game really interest you?

I'm interested in what other people think, but I want to hear from them, not from other people who have decided to speak on their behalf for some reason.

Why are you so insistent on trying to tell me what people other than you think and feel? Can't you just say you aren't concerned with personal preference without having to assume others agree with you?

Debatable, sure. But I think how far a leap it is depends somewhat on how much the result lines up with your personal preferences.

I would also add that making light of other people's fun (or not fun) isn't a great take. Everyone's experience is valid.

Those were just as bad, for those people.

I don't think my opinion is so unique, but ok.

How fans feel about a game, especially one that has experienced as many sweeping changes over its history as D&D, is absolutely material. I completely disagree on this.

There is a difference, but I contend how big a difference that is is very much subjective.

I really don't think so. They specifically leaned the game towards a particular playstyle and thus, away from other playstyles. Therefore, fans of those other playstyles may feel less included. This is practically Newtonian to my mind.

It certainly does, and I've played and enjoyed Sh RPGs are, however, a wonderful tool for mechanically representing fiction, are for me at least an amazingly fun activity, at least as fun as game night for me.

And by doing so telling everyone who didn't play that way that they were less welcome than before, yes

Yeah. That was always my perception of how 4e was presented, like the fiction was just flavor for the far more important rules set. I know that's a decisive take around here though, and just my subjective opinion.

I enjoy survival/building based video games, 4x video games like Stellaris, some board games (usually ones with higher complexity and/or minis), collectable minis games like Heroclix (although I was never very good at them) and 40k (though I've given up on active play), in addition to mid to...

Doing that is literally my favorite hobby.