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Yeah, this feels like the usual pie size fallacy. More books being published you don't like doesn't mean less books published that you...

Kinda seems like you're arguing that if men buy fewer books, the publishing industry should keep publishing the same quantities for...

Well, that's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy. To a large extent, gender-based preferences in literature are a cultural phenomenon...

If you want a more elegant 3.X chassis with the kind of monster templating and stats being described, then ditch Pathfinder and go...

This is something I've tried to get at before, which is linguistically tricky and fairly sensitive; I would not describe the second...

I think a little more exploration of "gameful" is necessary here. Addressing the premise doesn't have a lot to do with the gameplay loop...

I'm not sure how to be clearer that those are completely different gameplay loops. The differences are more salient than the...

Well, I think the problem we'd run into next is what is meant by "gameplay." My first point in this whole thread was saying the...

Feels like we're about to do the immersion discussion. Let's please not do immersion. It's clear to me that nothing is to be gained in...

It is jointly imagined. I don't think anyone disagrees with that. However, I reject that all possible jointly-imagined things are...

I don't think it makes a lot of sense to partition this off into sides, given it looks like there's at least 4. If it helps, I'm solidly...

So, I've been checking in and out, because this whole thing is wild, but it seems to me that this has been rather too focused on the...

I think the article says it pretty much perfectly.

Why not? Because prior to being directly, completely, and explicitly revealed-in-play, there's all sorts of effects the true facts...

What @pemorton is missing is the difference between approaching tabletop roleplaying from a first-person view versus a third-person...