Recent content by J.Quondam

Just a little OT quibble, but... That 99.7% number applies to the certainty that astronomers have detected a particular pair of molecules in that world's atmosphere, not that life exists there. Where those molecules come from* is an open question not addressed by that research. * Life is a...

pecan . . . baklava . . . ? . . .

Only if the baguette is really, really stale, i think?

.... But if I assaulted someone with a baguette, I'd get deported, right?

Fate Accelerated uses "Approaches" that, in that system, serve sort of like the Abilities in D&D and modify a character's actions. (Except they're about "how" a PC does something rather than what specifically they do.) Those might serve as starting point for your personalities: Careful, Clever...

Just to pick a number, probably around a 100-ish? posts is when I'm done. Except for very active threads, it seems somewhere around there is when most threads have boiled down to a few particularly vested users discussing whatever tangent they've gone onto. Also, when a thread I'm interested in...

From the taco video: "I don't have the lived experience to properly relate to those who purchase this," is the best thing I've heard this year so far. And it applies so very, very perfectly to so much in the world beyond salsa.

Test: Is delete posts new? I don't recall seeing that feature here. ETA - Result: I don't see delete post option.

Hungry Hungry Hippos

Yeah, I appreciate the familiar format, and find the moderation to be generally very good. But for me the main draw (aside from the general topic) is the size: there's probably just a few dozen really regular posters, plus a couple hundred other semi-regulars. It hits a "comfy" sweet spot...

This surfaced a few months ago, in an older thread. Relevant posts start here: https://www.enworld.org/threads/on-warning-points.674161/page-2#post-9598363 No real info in there, i don't think, but there it is if you want to take look.

Habit, mainly. Fortunately, EN World is way healthier than most of the rest of social media.

So it's not the rules liten-ess alone, but the rules lite + genre specificity that really caught the lightning in a bottle? I think that's a pretty compelling argument. It also just occurred to me to suggest another ultralite that goes way back: RISUS, first developed in 1993, iirc, though i'm...

I don't really follow gaming history closely, but I know there were tons of lites and ultralites long before this, an obvious one being Microlite20 in 2006. And there were "official" lite games published in the same timeframe, and probably before. (e.g., I think Fate Accelerated came out in...