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Sorry, but, "NGL"? Not familiar with that acronym and I'm probably totally showing my age here. :p

Oh, no, totally fair. Totally get that. And, I would certainly never want a steady diet of "catharsis" games either. But, it does...

Heh. Even with the power of a VTT behind me, my newbie player STILL struggles with his battlemaster fighter. And this is a player who...

When you apply it has rationales, but it isn't really intuitive unless you're just really familiar with the rule set. It boils down...

Fair enough. Tastes obviously vary. I talked about the elevator pitch I did for a Despair campaign where the world was dying. That's...

Just to quibbe. It's not so much @EzekielRaiden that it is noble to for doing the right thing when you'Re guaranteed to fail, it's...

I vastly prefer settings of hope over despair. A setting of despair makes me despair. Like literally. It actually makes me think...

I agree that they aren’t games, but I don’t think they’re activities either. RPGs are game creation engines. You can use those engines...

It's always interesting to see different experiences. See, I play on VTT exclusively. Something like a Twilight cleric doesn't add any...

Same in my Saltmarsh campaign, Twilight cleric, I was not that much of an issue, the fights were still pretty tough.

Personally, I would lean into the "more empathy" style setting. Sure, there's lots of bad stuff, but, by and large, given the choice...

I know that you've dropped out of the thread, and fair enough, but, all those works are absolutely SF. "Advanced technology" is not...

I wouldn't class the Handmaid's Tale as science fiction at all. There's no scientific or technological advance. It's just a thriller*...

I got to get college credit for taking a Science Fiction literature class in college. The prof's definition was basically "Science...

But, Space Opera isn't just knights and wizards in space. Allastair Reynolds is a master of Space Opera, but his stories are very...