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Absolutely. I've known people who game multiple times a week, though usually in separate unrelated campaigns, and they were racking up...

OK, now we reach the true crux of the issue. @FrogReaver'a preferences should be opposed and derided because there's a chance that if...

Because this is the first time I realized I needed to make the distinction. Both. It's a gamble where I-as-player have a...

Everyone wants games that cater to them. This is normal, and not something to be attacked or questioned. At no point, ever, in the...

Your examples indeeed aren't quite what I had in mind. The archetypical situation I'm thinking of is where the players proactively...

So, the point is even more extreme then. No one should be allowed to design games that @FrogReaver likes, because if they're allowed to...

If "standing around looking at each other" is what typically happens after a whiffed task then those players really need to learn how to...

I honestly prefer games where it's possible to lose. I told a story about a recent campaign that ended with a definite personal loss...

It's not about failing the dice roll, it's about how to deal with the fact that you fail sometimes because we all fail sometimes. Do...

Many players have the idiot thing down pat without the rules telling them to do so. ;)

Shouldn't teaching also include how to deal with failure?

Re: Bridge That it's not built on imagination has nothing to do with anything. What matters here is that it's baked into the game...

That's what game logs are for. :) And it makes sense that long campaigns are in the numeric minority, as while one group might be in a...

So maybe a better metric is session counts, or session counts and years in tandem. Or hours played; though I've never known anyone to...

They threw them out. For proof, click on 'Features" at the top of the page, then the second selection in the dropdown, the scroll down...