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Not without pointing at some sort of how, at least.

My parents very much tended to the "if you can reach it, you can read it" thing. This got awkward: My mom worked as an OB nurse and had books on pregnancy and childbirth that I was reading when I was ... like four. My parents were fine with that, some of my friends' parents, though ... 😬:LOL:

Most of the books from the "literary canon" that I've enjoyed, I've read on my own. I agree that reading them for class/es rarely puts them in their best light.

I'll note that it's entirely possible for someone you disagree with about just about anything to be much more a hero than a villain (by this metric, at least). This does not strike me as entirely a bug.

Oh, that old garbage again. It's not even worth reading the whole post, let alone the thread; and it's absolutely not worth my time or energy arguing. Have fun in your old echo chamber!

Or just a major compatibility problem, maybe. Not everyone who makes stuff I don't like is a garbage person, and not everyone who likes stuff I don't like is a garbage person. That doesn't mean liking different stuff isn't a problem, especially in a dating context. (Having auditioned for enough...

Dunno how many (if any) will find this a helpful distraction, but this is the new member of our household. His name is Blotch. Here, he's looking up from the 439th disembowelment of Rainbow Bug II. He showed up at our back door in a rainstorm. We worked with a local cat organization to have him...

IIRC Bowling Alone is a decade or two old at this point, and I'm wondering A) how its observations hold up and B) whether they're potentially relevant to TRPGs as they move away from being a shared in-person thing. I should possibly see about checking it out from the library to see for myself...

While I see what you're saying at the end, I care much less than you seem to about whether the book I read tonight will be as good as the book I read last night. But I grab a lot of books from the library, based mostly on what grabs me at the moment; while I want every book I grab to be really...

What did I ever do to you, and how can I apologize to you? 😉

Oh, look, yet another thing we disagree about.

Yeah, that 1:1 correlation is way beyond where I'd go in that direction, too..

I would say connections to/in the setting and goals and defined personality things (if not the BIFTs in 5e) would qualify--though the first of that is arguably backstory, it doesn't need to have a lot of narrative attached to it. I mean, the idea that a build without a personality isn't really a...

I was much happier hacking the XP rules, so the players got XP because I Did GM Things. The only times I used anything like Intrusion rules were when there were Nat 1s on the table (which I didn't allow the players to reroll). I mean, if you wanna call framing something in so the PCs have to...

Or just have a better sense of what the other players around the table are making. Either would be a real solution, I think, though I don't think they're so mutually exclusive as you seem to.

Yeah. Catching yourself out in behavior you strongly dislike in others is ... usually not a fun time. I mostly share your feelings about people jumping into my niche, though I can get a bit bothered if someone's doing it in addition to some other niche they say is their primary. Having someone...

I can see being more open to some characters not succeeding, but if you (general you, not Autumnal you) make a character with the specific idea they won't succeed, it seems as though there are some success/failure states in play that are not aligned with the characters--other than "having a good...

If it's intentional, yeah, it's a jerk thing. It's not always intentional--at least, I've seen instances that I didn't think were.

Just to be clear: Musical as in garage band, not musicals as in operettas. See, for me playing a TRPG is more like writing a story than reading one, and it's not at all like telling a story I already know; and the experience comes with a number of coauthors and all the interesting social...