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"What is and isn't Real Role-playing" sounds like an argument about semantics to me, and those tend to go nowhere. I don't find a...

Yes, but it's not only about story. Trying a difficult combat encounter several times until you win by the skin of your teeth is fun...

Sorry if I'm just rehashing some of the last 53 pages of, hrrmmmm, fluffy material, my interest waned at page 4... I think this is...

Disagree. Besides death there are a number of loss conditions to be explored...fictional and mechanical. There is an entire line on...

Oh I think it’s a lot more sword and sorcery than Greyhawk. Or at least, the S&S is a lot harder to avoid in Dark Sun. Is the tone...

the knowledge that you are doing the right thing yes, I would. In the real world I may not be less or more powerful based on what I...

nothing, but if you need external punishment for your deeds to stay on the good path, how good of a person are you to begin with… There...

I find this a strange take. Why play a good guy in any setting if you can get more stuff being a bastard? That implies that getting...

I do think that Athas is probably the D&D setting that most leans the most into Sword & Sorcery as a genre, even more so than Greyhawk...

I'll be able to show you one soon when you get moderated for challenging moderation!

I’m a fan of the setting, and have been since I first bought the original boxed set as a kid. I have fond memories of playing and...

Sure. I'm operating under the presumption that the group actively likes their current situation and would rather continue playing, and...

Re: TPKs I think the most straighforward solution is to just "reload" the game instead of ending it. There's no inherent virtue in...

If the campaign has a "save the world" premise, and the PCs all die, then it seems to me that the world hasn't been saved! Bringing in...

Yeah, but now, in addition to everything else, 4e can be morally wrong because of its mechanics...so, that's fun. :)