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Though I think acting like they're still playing and not engaging with the extent adventure, after they'd agreed to go with it is pretty...

And thats the sound of any hype for Daggerheart utterly plummeting. Which is a shame I really liked it as a game and CR basically...

And yet variations on equally simple situations are exactly what most of the RPG hobby is based on. If everything is complicated, then...

Indeed, and given the crowd here specifically, there's no reasonable discussion to be had on the issue. Few people anywhere are...

Explain to me the complicated and nuanced situation inherent in: the players found a map that tells them where both great treasure and a...

In this scene, maybe. For now. In behavioral biology it's becoming much more popular. ~80% of our behavior is genetic. As anyone who...

Depends on the game. I prefer paper sheets, real dice, and theatre of the mind combat. Zoom or Google Meet or Microsoft Teams, etc. are...

The existence of exceptions, outliers and many data points that are all over the place does not invalidate the existence of patterns in...

Insisting that 2 + 2 = 4 is taking away my mathematical agency and is a railroad.

Stop objecting. You're not the correctness police. That's why discussions fail to get off the ground. What do you want to accomplish...

There are all kinds of things you can do to influence pacing and tension during a session without having a plot. I routinely use all of...

Are you not following what people mean when you say these things, or are you just taking exception to the idea that the words aren't...

Indeed. If my players enjoyed a lot more tactical depth and drawn-out combat, which I don't really care much about, then I'm not likely...

Oh, well of course yeah! I'd never deny that! :D Roleplaying games are absolutely 100% meant to be a story-creation medium, not a...

Other than the sample ones that I listed in the post you were responding to? I agree that this is the only useful (to me)...