Recent content by Maxperson

Hey! My boat was born female and had two very loving boat parents.

Just out of curiosity, how do those languages handle unisex names like Dana, Mickey, Riley, etc?

The idea that 3e had a lesser degree of game is ludicrous. With the possible exception of 4e(I didn't play it), 3e had the most game of any edition. It tried to come up with a rule for just about everything.

Because people often like to imagine that things are happening that really aren't happening in any significant numbers. 1e, 2e, 3e and 5e all have a LOT of game to them. Just because a good number of people didn't like 4e's game design, doesn't in any way mean that they want to jettison the...

I love when I see stories like this one. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/11/16/church-flying-spaghetti-monster-massachusetts-religion/75862946/

It's taken you how many pages now to find someone to reinforce your point? I see no evidence one way or the other whether your feelings represent most other players, or whether my feelings represent most other players. I do see more folks in this thread that feel like I do, but that doesn't...

While it may not be the most creative addition, Cthulhu has a place in the hearts of D&D/Fantasy gamers in a way that the other three do not.

Nobody has tried to tell you that you are not saying what you are saying. If that's what you are getting, you are misunderstanding something somewhere.

I've already given an example of multiple cooks cooking a meal. Hell, go to any nice restaurant and multiple chefs are cooking your meal. Cooking is not a solo job. Ahh, earth magic.

And D&D dictates dice, rulebooks, etc. That doesn't make getting them out adventure prep. You're conflating things. Ok. Not in the context of RPG play.

Not everything that happens before a game and is related to it is actual game prep. Setting up a soccer field for play is akin to the DM pulling out the books, dice, providing a table to play on, etc. That's not the same prepping the adventure via the RPG rules, which is what I'm talking...

Usually by blaming Col. Hogan. Schultz of course saw nothing.

Rule are for providing structure and fairness to an activity. Fun is a byproduct of that fairness and structure, which is what keeps us coming back to that activity. Without the fairness and structure of rules, you generally end up with... Cops and Robbers Kid 1: "I got the handcuffs on you...

Except it won't be shopping. And not because we can't have nice metaphors. Rather it's because group play consists of taking the ingredients(prep) I add to the mix(dungeon layout, monsters, NPCs, treasure, etc.) and the ingredients the players add(PCs), and then together making something great...

The metaphor is about where the activity lies, yes. The point of cooking(as a metaphor) is for everyone at the table to enjoy adding to the food being prepared. Cooking so that at the end they hopefully have a great meal(adventure conclusion) that was jointly prepared by everyone involved. My...