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Seems a little nitpicky to me. Is the 100% sim straw man going back into battle once more?

So you won't play unless you have massive amounts of control. Gotcha.

Always and never are absolutes, used in rhetoric for emphasis. They probably shouldn't be, but the more precise you make your language...

I never said it was bigger, but at this point WotC's game simply does not matter to me anymore.

The problem with that definition (in addition to the moral judgment leveled on your rhetorical opponents) is that it suggests that no...

There is a lot more D&D (and its relatives) out there than the thin point of the spear officially supported by WotC in 2025.

Sadly I've seen some players claim "Don't worry if we get arrested, Daddy can bail us out" type of thinking. Fortunately rare, but it...

Since I'm more familiar with my world than my players are, we typically have a discussion about their background. It's not that I don't...

Sure. I just expect that there's no game that has it all done before play. The players don't have every detail about their characters...

That would depend entirely on the game in question, of course. There are numerous games where the players get to make the world, or at...

See this is the kind of thing I have come to expect (in my own games) to come up quite a bit during play. The idea that a player would...

That's fair. My actual preference is for the player to stick to their PC specifically once the campaign begins, but in practice people...

I suspect in the case of the people I'm talking about, there are whole elements in superhero settings they wouldn't be able to engage...

But time/noise do have a mechanism for being handled. That is what the random encounter roll is for! If the ruleset specifies the time...

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