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Yeah absolutely. This idea that optimized PCs and good roleplaying are somehow in opposition to each other is, frankly, not only...

I'm not disagreeing, here, but I've come to the conclusion that often when people say something on the lines of "the players have...

I mean, I accept that may be how you choose to use the word, but if you interpret other people as meaning that, you're just...

That's far narrower than a lot of people using the term mean by it.

Eh. There may be varying levels of self-awareness and of subjective aesthetic preferences involved. They may have built what they...

This is a nonsensical statement. "Thrive" is relative. Non-optimized PCs benefit more and "thrive" more in a game that is "made easy for...

Indeed. All "I'm not optimized" means in terms of RP is "...and I'm not very good at my job" which is more of a character beat than "...

I fully agreed with the rest of the post, but here I have to disagree. Heavy RP and Optimize are not opposites of a scale, you can do...

I don't think anyone has said that the win/loss conditions/states in TRPGs are the same as those found in more conventional games. I...

Or, you could have an RPG in which the traditional "GM" role has been shifted to more of an active collaborator in a form of asymmetric...

Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

you act like you've never seen Maple Hulk.

I finally finished the documentary movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension and I'm surprised there's anything...

I suspect that it’s mostly a matter of cost, with Audible charging much less for Virtual Voice, but I’ll see if I can find out. I...

There is fierce debate about this. Carl Sagan's "Mars belongs to the Martians" was one of the opening shots, and I don't think it has...