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The "racism equals prejudice plus power" argument doesn't really hold much water today because then you have to bite the bullet on some...

Oh, sure. I didn't mean to imply that having a wide gap between complexity floor and ceiling was necessarily a good thing. Just that two...

I try to play something as written before trying to change it. People very much overestimate their ability to tell how rules play at the...

Yes this. I'm not going to name names but there are a couple of FitD and PtbA games that have really cool concepts and a some good rules...

Star Wars beyond the Skywalker saga. I think "refuse" is probably too strong a word, but yeah the extended universe has little interest...

Anime and Manga. I can watch an Anime movie, but I don't want to do a long form series.

I agree with all of that. Also, the last part of what you said there is why there are "rules-light" games that, to me, are more complex...

Yeah exactly. There are so many games which have complexity in completely the wrong places. Often it's not even subjectively wrong as in...

I think it matters where the complexity is at. Sometimes, my issue with a game is neither that it's too complex nor that it's not...

I understand that there are people who believe power is required to be "racist." I had a few college professors who pushed that idea...

Those arguing here that there has to be a Power Imbalance for there to be racism means that I could never be a racist for the most part...

I suspect the average OSR fan doesn't give much thought to these issues. They just enjoy the games for themselves. That's pretty much...

God no, those bad actors need to be identified as such, loudly. But sometimes the internet just goes on and on about them, and not to...

This is true of the DCC groups I've been a part of, both before and after the JG stuff.

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