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it is a Huuuuuuge commitment to game 3/4 sundays that can affect relationships, other hobbies, life balance etc. I really wouldn’t take...

Wish him the best and let him know there is always a chair for him at your table. For many people, hobbies have an expiration date...

In my opinion it's because a lot of folks here use the same negatively charged terminology that the original authors used. Whether they...

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

There are no female police officers? No female criminals?

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

Fail forward isn't a mechanic to be codified, simply a technique than can be employed (or not) as one sees fit. Granted, any given game...

I try hard not to lump people together into monolithic groups based on what some people say. I assume the majority of people who play...

I mean, I don't necessarily believe that the narrativist position believes this, but the implication really seems to come through in the...

I just find the term GM decides to not capture the nuances around how the gm decides and how the players influence those decisions...

"the term “childish play” is not intended to be disparaging. I do not think that playing in a childish manner is a shameful activity. If...

It's pretty obvious that traditional simulationist play is pretty much the same as playing with your GI Joe dolls and narrativist play...

Not RPGing, traditional and simulationist play. Other styles don't get the same treatment. Traditional play is "playing to find out...

I agree. People don't talk about how a poem grew out of a child's first words. Just about everything we do could be related back to...

What I find most objectionable is that mainstream RPGing tends to get associated with terms for simple Children's games in general.