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For a very short period - maybe just a few years - this will be true, as only the megacorps will be able to afford the tech and...

"I don't know much about art, but I know what I like" is the most authentic statement about art criticism ever made. If you prefer the...

I don't think that's really true, people will create art and writing and new music, still generally be creative because that is what...

Or it describes a GM in whose setting not only are you restricted to playing a Human but that Human has to be Norse.

The term has shifted over time, then; the point with the epithet thrown toward certain kinds of GMs was that they either completely...

I want to add to this as a bit of a digression, because.. reasons. :P I ran a game of Forgotten Realms where there was some reason for...

There's IMO more than enough design space to have a very limited number of PC-playable species that aren't Human and then give clear...

How can you possibly state something like that as an objective fact? Progression suggests moving a positive direction. I get this is...

So yes, I'm "Person B" in this equation, and for purposes of this thought exercise, assumption is that I'm the GM. I was responding to...

Because they're running the game and aren't forced to? I mean, honestly, its the same reason GM choices tend to dominate the game in...

Setting lore matters when the players are interested enough to interact with it or when the campaign involves them interacting with it...

I think it means you care about trying to get it right. You care that it feels right. You think 'maces are better against platemail...

I think that ignores the most important aspect of sim: the rules are serving as (for lack of a better term) the physics of the world...

Which is fine, except a video game very rarely if ever has to narrate what that loss of hit points looks like in the fiction. The...