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Thing is, oftentimes some or even all of those 'x' events are what lead up to the following 'H' event; which means eliding or handwaving...

I tend to push pace in places that it doesn’t hurt, such as downtime shopping and combat. If it’s routine and mechanics heavy, I’m gonna...

Normally focused and working to move the game forward.....unless i didn't prep, then maybe more tangents and using my DM skills to make...

That sounds about right. Agonizing over trivialites and spinning out simple tasks are commonplace round here. Reaching consensus is a...

We can spend a whole session planning what to do next. Only to go pursue a totally different thing, sometime on another continent, on...

It depends on how the cosmology is used. Having it be important all the time, for every character, seems like concentrating too much...

Whether or not I-as-player ever read any of it, I still want it to be there as a foundation that makes the setting tick and that informs...

D&D was a victim of the Satanic panic but, as the OP notes, the main effects came in the later 1980s. There's some other factors at...

Fantastic post, per usual, but I feel inclined to quibble with this statement, because to me it's a classic example of correlation being...

I actually think an all-highlights game could still be verisimilitudinous, as that's a feature of the underlying setting and approach...

I want to apologize as well. As much as I try to make sure my opinions are sufficiently labeled as such, sometimes an opinion is going...

I just want to briefly explain my response to @hawkeyefan earlier. I’ve noticed a recurring pattern where posts—maybe...

Thanks for the reply, but it’s worth pointing out that you didn’t actually refute the argument I made. Instead, you shifted the...

Which sounds OK in itself, but doesn't seem to square with the idea of characters having medium-to-long-term goals or beliefs or ideals...

I’m pointing out the inconsistency in criticizing the authority of traditional referees while giving a pass to similar practices, just...