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I think part of it might be cultural, and part is a desire to highlight unique patterns that the human brain fixes on and gets a...

Eh, there's enough AMAZING games out there that don't get the audience they deserve that I'm skeptical of this statement (Everyone play...

Veilguard doesn’t actually have an arachnophobia mode, because it doesn’t have any spiders in it.

Well, the problem with passive checks IMO is that they’re named so poorly, everyone assumes they work in a different way than what the...

Thanks for the responses! Fair enough, and a roll to see how an NPC reacts is totally fair. Something like this totally works, in that...

I agree. I would just describe it as the arrow passing through. At high range, tmit might not be obvious if it does so beacause of an...

Solid analysis of the illusion rules in both books, I agree with your interpretations. I do have a bit of a nitpick though: D&D is an...

While there is more information in PHB 2024 about Illusions thanin 2014, there still isn’t enough, and problems persist in play. What...

I never said you said it was either Ok…? I’m not sure why you’re telling me this.

Clair Obscur isn't substantially different from other games in its genre in regards to the story being kind of on rails. There's some...

No, it used to be a pretty specific term before reactionaries co-opted it. Now it’s a dog whistle and a rhetorical tool that is vague by...

I think @Charlaquin 's point is that subjectivity you mentioned is often retrospective. Like a game is "putting diversity first" until...

It's very much still a story you experience instead of one you drive, though the writing is excellent. The gameplay is very satisfying...

Thank you! I can’t take full credit for it. The phrasing is mine, but I got the idea of “get woke, go broke” as an incantation from a...

This might be the best summary of this phenomenon that I've ever read.