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And your linguistic prescriptivism is... «bleep» It's a linguistic tag hanging on only in some subpopulations. Also, the H is sounded...

Looking at what I've been running the last year or so... I like metacurrencies, unified resolution mechanics, variety of special...

Mod Note: Both of you are being problematic. @Thomas Shey has been here long enough to know we’d prefer that, if you’re going to...

Everyone I game with says "a hit point" not "an HP." A few do say "a haich-pee" from time to time. The use of an before h-nouns is in...

Sun Fallout: Vertibird, Paladin: Went Up In Flames

As usual, this is the opposite of my experience; optimizers are at their best in hard games, and in fact, are often bred by same. The...

Mod Note: Assigning value to people based on their play preferences isn't Deep. It's kinda junior-high-school cliquishness. How about...

Most people playing AD&D used some (often unique in their area) subset of the gygaxian spew of rules text...

Only partially true, in 1e... all advanced careers require you to get the skills of the entry path, and you could only pick new starting...

In meaningful ways they are almost the worst at demonstrating their own game. For the past ten years Critical Role have been probably...

because it's extremely common for the +4-+5 level and -4 to -5 level to be preachy as hell about the -2 to +2 level players "not...

it made up for it with PCs having stupidly high atts.

it's worth noting that Discord demands a modest bandwidth, but gets picky about latency (lag), too. Fiber barely lowers latency; it just...

Sometimes, the potatoes are due to poverty... but yeah.

Folks who cling to potatoes with a death grip because they don’t want to learn a new machine or ever change are a good example.