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We're talking about a voluntary leisure activity - game play - based around creating a shared fiction. So how can it be anything other...

The answer to that question is always, emphatically and unequivocally, Yes. Which is why canon gatekeeping is so weird to me, it's not...

Dark Sun Campaign Setting, p208: Dark Sun Creature Catalog, p30:

Oh I think it’s a lot more sword and sorcery than Greyhawk. Or at least, the S&S is a lot harder to avoid in Dark Sun. Is the tone...

It's in the Dragon entry in the Monster book. I was just rereading it a day or two ago, prompted by this thread. Maybe there are some...

In my 4e Dark Sun game we treated Bards and Avengers as psionic.

And the function of a fireball is to cause slaughter en masse, burning people to death. In the real world, we've come to generally agree...

Like I said, fair enough. It's a bit of a stretch too far for me. But, then again, it is very much in keeping with most of the...

I find this a strange take. Why play a good guy in any setting if you can get more stuff being a bastard? That implies that getting...

You seem to be asking how does being heroic increase the player's chance of "winning"? But I think the idea is that what "promotes"...

There's a big difference between a house rule that's adopted to better fit the needs of the group, or to fill a gap in the rules that...

As noted by @Old Fezziwig two pages ago, Ron Edwards for Sorcerer.

I don't really see how killing minions is much different than a high level AD&D Fighter cutting down a dozen kobolds in one combat round...

People tend to avoid having to lose progress, so they tend to not want to die. What's even the alternative, really, presuming have a...

Re: TPKs I think the most straighforward solution is to just "reload" the game instead of ending it. There's no inherent virtue in...