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If that's the game you enjoy, go for it. Why would what you play matter to me?

And yet they still exist, because as far as I'm concerned we live in a logical universe.

I generally want the world and the characters in it to make logical sense, yes. If they appear not to, there's always a reason. Just like real life.

Doing things that make sense isn't your goal.

Well, I have the whole line, but those were my two favorites of the novels. Knight of the Black Rose in particular has a special place in my heart, so thank you for writing it.

Yup. Nothing insulting about telling someone their play is "obsolete", right? 😉

Something involving a harvest ritual and a sacrifice, perhaps?

When I see these things and want something that fits in a different mechanical (not that I have a problem with the Clone background as it is), I just homebrew. It is IME pretty easy to make a new heritage gift, culture, background, feat, or any other smallish mechanical widget.

I've seen all of these save Thunderbolts (which I've heard good things about and will get to shortly), but the ones I really enjoyed were Daredevil and especially Deadpool (honorable mention to Loki 2 and GotG 3). I'm a hardcore Marvel fan and love obscure references and in-jokes, but most of...

I also acknowledge my mistakes. Nothing really is an absolute, so getting on folks for small departures from sim (which can themselves be explained as abstractions for ease of play) seems nitpicky to me. Quite frankly, it reads to me like no one can do sim in @pemerton 's eyes unless they've...

Seems a little nitpicky to me. Is the 100% sim straw man going back into battle once more?

Always and never are absolutes, used in rhetoric for emphasis. They probably shouldn't be, but the more precise you make your language, the harder it is to make a clear point. I have a series of preferences I believe in, that work best for me. I rarely get to follow those preferences exactly in...

I never said it was bigger, but at this point WotC's game simply does not matter to me anymore.

The problem with that definition (in addition to the moral judgment leveled on your rhetorical opponents) is that it suggests that no business should ever fail for any reason, because business failure nearly always leads to some good, hardworking people losing their jobs.

There is a lot more D&D (and its relatives) out there than the thin point of the spear officially supported by WotC in 2025.

That's fair. My actual preference is for the player to stick to their PC specifically once the campaign begins, but in practice people throw out little details about their backstories all the time and it's not something I'm losing sleep over. My daughter's PC in a recent game brought the party...

Of course, different games serve different purposes, even the same game at different tables.

Getting an enemy to surrender or run away should IMO count as defeating them for purposes of xp.

Absolutely. Morale is a thing (or should be), and IMO enhances the verisimilitude of the experience.

And even that assumes what's happening at WotC even matters to you. How many people on this thread even play 5.5? I'm sure it's not everyone.