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Sometimes you just need to jump into the deep end of the pool. When it comes to something like a fictional stardrive, you find out if...

If I want to run a game other people don't want to play, we don't end up playing it. If we do play and I make a call with which a player...

Man! Now I wish I had said Skittles instead of M&Ms.

I think that's an overstatement. In the simplest form - I don't generally run games online. The digital world is not a source of...

Traditionally, this is a self-correcting problem. Back in the old days (finds beard to stroke) ... the way a lot of games evolved was...

Perhaps worth keeping in mind that for a lot of groups the only time they're together is during the game sessions, which thus makes them...

It’s clear D&D has some aspects of simulation. It’s clear some other games have more robust simulation at least in some areas. It’s...

If you want to play a tiefling, and will not budge on that, and the DM says "no tieflings" and won't budge on that, what does your group...

More "You're invited to adventure in this world I've provided for you. You're free to accept or decline" I think, because this happens...

I'm having trouble understanding the arguments here because they seem so tied to what imagined subjects of play the group have chosen to...

What is the isekai vibe?

I think you've mixed me up with someone else on this one. There's loads of places in my setting that I haven't fully defined. Some of...

Perhaps, but the effect was first noticed on cruise liners crossing the equator which would have been using the same equipment all...

I liked your post because I agree that the DM can be far more disruptive to a game than a player can. However, I don't think that...

Do you know what your definition lacks? Anything saying that a person with unconditional power can't choose to listen to someone else...