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So the house inspection was yesterday, we put together a list of buyer concessions and the seller has agreed to most of them...

What I want as a player, and what I make sure to provide to my players when I GM, is to understand the basics of the way the game works...

I was replying to your own universal statement about player engagement with setting, which doesn’t match my experience. I’ve had plenty...

I agree that the idea that the players never care much about the setting or anything in it is at least not inherently true. I have a...

This is just simply not true. I'm running four different games right now where every session all the players show up excited, ready to...

Yeah, I get it. It's the only face to face game you have. But you keep going down this road with posts here. Time to take a break with...

Honestly, until you get your players on the same page with you, this will just keep repeating (no pun intended). And that means they...

So, how do I say.. these are not in conflict, for me? At least, not in the senses that pop into my mind. A trope (in my mind, at...

I enjoy it when a game uses tropes familiar to everyone at the table. It eases communication and understanding of what's going on, and...

I love to be surprised, but also to be delighted, which means I’m usually looking for a fusion of familiar and new elements...

I'm sometimes interested in mechanics or settings that explore underdeveloped areas, but in the latter case I don't have much...

I'm not much interested in novelty in rules... like kinky new dice tricks. But I like settings that have at least some element of...

Hard skew toward weird. There's very little actually new after 50 years of gaming and nostalgia won't carry me more than a handful of...

Some day I will manage to internalize the message in this picture, but apparently today is not that day.

Oh! I've seen that version of The Wizard of Oz too.