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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

oh, then I misunderstood the “When you have to have a 20-page stack of house rules” part…

The 20 pages of house rules are when you don't match the rules to the adventure and have to try and force a round peg into a square hole.

 

[Moonmover]

PvP is fun, generates great stories, and is often the outcome of good roleplaying.

 

[Eyes of Nine]

Ironically not even a Nirvana song...

 

[Eyes of Nine]

I liked white wolf played some mage. It was a well written system but it was also written in such a way that nothing the players ever did could possibly do anything but tinker at the edges of that dark reality. That I think was the reason it didn't last.

Um, a 5th edition of VtM was recently published, and apparently it still sells TO THIS DAY of our lord Vecna, 2023-July 21. We'll have to agree to disagree on the concept of "not lasting"

Now, if you were referring to your own personal campaign (not clear from your post); that changes things. I can see quite a few campaigns puttering out because the GM was slavishly following the canon, instead of allowing the player actions to impact the overall meta-story...

 

[soviet]

This brings me to another unpopular opinion: just because someone bought an old IP and wrote a new book does not automatically make their product part of the same family. Usually, it's just fan fiction with higher production values.

See also: Marvel Comics post 1991

 

[MGibster]

But the reason that some people dislike Season 6 (and I put this in as an unpopular opinion) is the same reason I think it is brilliant; yes, it is awkward and sometimes painful, but it also is a (heightened, dramatized) reflection of the anomie, aimlessness, and breakdown that can occur in groups and in individuals in that strange post-college transition phase.

I just didn't like Buffy as a person in season six. Then I ended up not liking Xander either. Other than that one episode, I would have preferred it if the series ended with 5.

 

[CleverNickName]

More of a bitter pill to swallow than an unpopular opinion, but:

Whenever you play D&D (or any other TTRPG), you are the only person in the whole world who plays it that way.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I just didn't like Buffy as a person in season six. Then I ended up not liking Xander either. Other than that one episode, I would have preferred it if the series ended with 5.

They should have ended it at high school graduation, the show's creative peak and the place it made the most narrative sense to do so.

 

[Jack Daniel]

Steampunk is the triumph of aesthetics over substance. It's why I hate it.

I trust, for consistency's sake, that you bear the same hatred for """Tolkieneqsue""" fantasy, """medieval""" fantasy, and other popular but ultimately shallow genres/aesthetics?

If not, singling out steampunk would be, at the very least, kind of weird.

 

[Mallus]

Past a certain point, style is substance.

Every set of rules for good worldbuilding is wrong.