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What's odd to me is that some people associate RPGs with kids games and spend hours screaming at the TV passively watching people...

Well, so can princesses! 😁 I think we agree in this area. I certainly wouldn't consider either term derogatory, at least not inherently...

“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned...

I'm with you. I used to play Magic the Gathering at a semi-competitive level (two GP day twos and one PT), and I still play at local...

I don't really see the connection between winning and feelings/enjoyment. When I play card or board games, I often lose. That doesn't...

Isn't 'cops and robbers' equally gender charged? Just because you are used to certain phraseology and terms doesn't make them neutral.

He doesn't agree that they are disparaging terms - for instance,: the term “princess play” is not intended to be disparaging. I do not...

I'm not sure that all do. For instance, some "cozy" RPGs seem to emphasise tea parties and the like. Some dungeon crawls, also, don't...

Maybe. I think part of the issue is that these kinds of debate push people towards more and more absolutist definitions of things, where...

Well, this is not really sufficient. Narrativist play is play that is focused on a premise. That premise has, or begets situations with...

OK, you got me. 15,000+ posts of a slew of trad GMs oozing 'I own this part of the game' and you post a quote from John Harper that...

What about the barter? This s not just a throw-away difference. It's fundamental!

A lot of stuff just doesn't seem to 'come off' in trad play. So, for instance, the highly technical Ocean's Eleven style of heist, where...

And, just to point out one of the reasons why I favor this sort of 'consequence resolution' is that ACTUAL game situations are so...

Well, I think you could have pretty much any of the kinds of Apocalypse you speak of. I mean, maybe Humanity has a collective...