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Simply put, I don't care what is being banned (in the context of the idea of censorship in general). I care who is doing the banning...

I'm more a modern roguelike guy, but sure. I just think tabletop environments with my friends and a dedicated person for content...

Oh god, I played a lot of Talisman back in my youth and heartily hope never to play any more ever again. That being said, I don't see...

I don't have an object swinging system off the top of my head, but I want to point out that I don't actually care if they perfectly...

This is always my problem, whenever the "crazy example" comes up, it just reads as a clear design prompt to me. Does your game not have...

This is a crude approach in an already terrible context that will only make things worse, but I could see an argument for wanting to...

Precisely. I think there is unique value to the TTRPG form that doesn't come solely at the expense of all the other stuff.

The problem is that some of us really do want out chocolate with our peanut butter.

The ur-example is the 3e climbing rules. They're pretty action complete. I wouldn't overindex on "knowing the outcome" here though...

Mastercard made an unusual public statement about this: Image link for those who can't see Bluesky: Mastercard are both: A)...

I really don't think that's necessary, especially once you add some expected genre/structure constraints and zoom out the abstraction a...

You can't avoid people using a tool for unintended purposes, or (as might be in practice) claiming they're using the tool when they...

To calculate the most efficient DPR trade-off once you've determined the enemy's AC, especially if you're using and extra stuff that...

I think that's more dogma than fact, but more importantly I think directionally wrong for design. Starting from an assumption that your...

I am not totally sure what point about spells you're referring to, I think I'm just missing the post looking back, but I'm not sure my...