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The idea of winning/losing at TRPGs lines up pretty well with my experience of co-op board games--which are the only ones we play at my...

Indeed. There's nothing about "winning" or "losing" at TRPGs that inherently means "play ends." That seems to be one of the areas of...

I personally have found that open ended nature to be the most useful way to explain the design/structural challenges of the RPG vs...

Microsoft's browsers have always been quirky - sometimes I think because for businesses it drives retention. Mission-critical stuff...

Yeah, definitely. Crome's the 900-pound gorilla, right? Someone using Microsoft's current browser is probably an Edge-case. (heh)

This is the crux of where people are seeing things differently. To the extent that the player playing well (and yes, "the player playing...

I was really pleased that Daggerheart's no initiative system allows specialists to shine if that's how everyone wants to play. The game...

Given those are both Webkit, I wouldn't expect a site broken in one to work in the other. That might be your point.

-- Me, a Software Company Employee for decades. "your site is busted in Chrome." "Try edge." "Yes, I'm reporting it for Chrome." "You...

I've softened my stance on optimization from in the past, where I thought it was a pox on the hobby. Optimizers are not only perfectly...

This comes close to my feelings. Winning and losing in an RPG are mostly down to the mission at hand, but success or failure are usually...

When I was a kid and through to college years, when I would get home from a D&D session my mom would invariably ask, "Did you win?"...

That's why we always like to have at least one non-optimizer at the table.

I think either will feel pointless, but I don't feel they'll feel like the same kind of pointless.

That's not unreasonable, really. Having your character achieve their goal/s feels a lot like winning, and having your character fail to...