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Micah Sweet
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Fair enough, but unless your rulebooks are the size of the collected Encyclopedia Brittanica there's inevitably going to be situations...
Jan 12, 2026
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If you are trying to align your subjective opinion with some kind of majority in an attempt to validate your preference over mine, I...
Jan 12, 2026
Micah Sweet
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I suppose so, but they're also distasteful (to me, anyway), and I prefer other ways to represent that sort of thing. Level Up's exertion...
Jan 12, 2026
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Who's "we"? Do you mean that's not how you decide? Not me. You might see the fact that it represents a real thing as a fig leaf that...
Jan 12, 2026
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I think that's debatable. Are inspiration, luck, willpower and fate real things in the setting that have real, concrete effects, like...
Jan 12, 2026
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I think it is, because the name tells what the mechanic represents, and what it represents is a real thing in the setting, and to me...
Jan 12, 2026
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I can see the difference. I would add in the consideration about 'creativity at the table'. So that's where I can see AI add to...
Jan 12, 2026
Micah Sweet
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But from where does the thing you came up with come? How is getting an idea from AI less creative than getting it from something else...
Jan 12, 2026
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I was telling myself last month that I'd re-read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings this year, since I haven't read them since the...
Jan 12, 2026
Micah Sweet
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It is totally fair to do that. Your judgments will probably be wrong, but such is life!
Jan 12, 2026
Micah Sweet
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But didn't the Force aid people that weren't sensitive. Han Solo could definitely have been helped by the force. Blind Han activating...
Jan 12, 2026
Micah Sweet
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What more direct and useful connection do you need? The Force is real in Star Wars. That is a fact not in dispute.
Jan 12, 2026
Micah Sweet
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But it doesn't represent an explicit action that could be taken (and be aware of being taken) by the character, which from my...
Jan 12, 2026
Micah Sweet
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I can see the grey area for the reasons you state, but ultimately it still represents a real thing in the fiction, so I can't see it as...
Jan 12, 2026
Micah Sweet
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Then it's perfectly fair for the rest of us to use our own judgements as well, even if we come to different conclusions than you.
Jan 12, 2026
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