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If the speed of light in a vacuum is constant in all frames, then acceleration to or beyond light speed is impossible. At least, that's...

There were no problems in my MHRP/Cortex+ Fantasy game. The players interacted with the runes, and the process of play led us to...

It seems to me that there are (at least) 3 ways of thinking about an episode of RPGing, or an approach to RPGing, as simulationist: (1)...

I don't follow. When attention is paid in the play of the game to the runes, the reasons for their creation emerge. As the anecdote...

Just a quick note on the background I'm coming from: The last 6 games I ran were: Blades in the Dark Masks Girl By Moonlight (Magical...

Because we don't know how would the disproof has been rendered? To put it another way, what - in the universe of Star Trek - is the...

I don’t think it’s out of the ballpark to interpret the below and the tangent it brought about exactly as @pemerton did. I’d say his...

Well, it would be weird for characters to demonstrate, via the special relativity thought experiments, that it is impossible for your...

I don't know what you mean by "secondary source" here. Do you mean the accounts of historians? Or do you mean contemporaneous documents...

I also don't see how "D&D General" = trad gamers/trad gaming. I have played D&D quite a bit, and am likely to play it again before I...

You know… I got moderated for making assumptions about other people’s motives. No one has ragged on you. You aren’t trad gaming.

Given that systems of law in which precedent is authoritative have devices for departing from, and/or overturning, precedents that are...

Seems like throwing the baby out with the bathwater to me. It’s a mistake, they happen. Just adjust going forward. Following a mistake...

You can explain why you don't like something without saying that it is wrong. I don't tell you that you're wrong, do I? Perhaps also not...

I was talking about the sort of RPGing that I experience. Even when I've played in "trad" games, the experience has been as I described...