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Well chess, fighting games, and TF2 are all complete games in and of themselves. RPGs, despite “game” being in the name, aren’t really...

Huh. Kind of surprising, as there have been many hundred-plus page arguments about it here on ENWorld. It’s how I summarize my preferred...

Even within spaces like TCGs and Warhammer where this (correct) definition of “the metagame” is relevant, a lot of people don’t even...

As a tangent, the most annoying part is that the word "meta" when used in RPG context is completely divorced of any broader definition...

So there's the 2019 answer to that question, two years before her own actions were revealed. That should settle that specific aspect...

Depends on your definition of metagaming. Is taking information you’ve learned from past adventures into account metagaming? Is...

In my experience, people often interpret other people advocating for their own play preferences as “other ways of playing suck.” Which...

Smaller portion of video gamers so far than I would have expected

I'm uncomfortable with this thread. It appears to serve little purpose other than to dogpile on another human being, and seems...

This thread is about Satine, not Zak. Let's keep it that way, please.

Hey. Someone asked a question. They did not make an assertion. Suggesting the former is the latter without cause is also uncool. When...

“Skilled play” is a terrible name for it, for many reasons, this among them. Though, I don’t think the intent is to imply that other...

.... I mean I'd watch it. Sounds like a Dark Crystal style story.

“Skilled play” is a poor term for the play patterns it’s trying to describe, yes, and for a lot more reasons than this. But, there is a...

I normally don’t like to poke fun at typos, but I love “the last likits” because it sounds like the title of a particularly strange 80s...