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It's not about the playstyle. It's about the argument because it almost frames exploration as the equivalent of eating your vegetables...

When I read Of Dice and Men about a year ago, I took it as more a book for non-TRPGers about why people TRPG. Most of the history of the...

Finished this over lunch today. The copy I have is the 2024 reissue, and am pleased to report that the ten years after 35 page...

Hrm. The noise-to-signal ratio seems a bit off today.

I think you're missing that to some people "This roll does nothing and is boring" is still superior to "If I make this roll something...

Sure, there’s some players who don’t really want to play a RPG either - they just want to tell stories and throw a d20 as a dice of fate...

No, it's because you keep dropping crappy little one liners like digs or "crapposting" throughout this thread. Like, you show up each...

Well, part of the problem is that sometimes there's process where failure is providing information that may be desirable for changing...

I read Of Dice and Men when it was new. I think it hit differently, because back then there weren't that many book speaking about D&D...

----- Look, in my defense, you should have seen the way that goat was dressed...

I don't think that's the actual goal...

It’s 11 years ago, I’m in a massive university Intro to Psychology class. Everybody in my 250-person lecture is freaking out because...

Now you're just telling the Gnome Bard assassins where they can find you... Not strictly related to the "fairness of life" asides, but...

Not these forums - One day, OSR people are going to have to get it out of their heads that any criticism or friction with OSR games is...

That's the worst. "I had to put up with all that unfairness and I turned out all right!" If you want others to suffer because you...